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Residual Feed Intake:A Measurement of Feed Efficiency in Beef Cattle Nutrition and Feeding

  • ZHONG Xiaolin ,
  • GAO Tengyun ,
  • ZHAI Lei
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  • College of Veterinary and Animal Science, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China

Received date: 2013-10-08

  Online published: 2014-03-04

Abstract

Residual feed intake (RFI) is a new measurement to assess feed conversation ratio of beef cattle. The article introduced briefly researches related to net feed intake of beef cattle from the following aspects: the definition of RFI, the physical basics affecting RFI, the relationships between RFI and methane emission, economic implications of RFI, hereditary capacity and genetic correlation of RFI and research advances on the relative molecular markers of RFI.

Cite this article

ZHONG Xiaolin , GAO Tengyun , ZHAI Lei . Residual Feed Intake:A Measurement of Feed Efficiency in Beef Cattle Nutrition and Feeding[J]. Chinese Journal of Animal Nutrition, 2014 , 26(3) : 591 -596 . DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1006-267x.2014.03.006

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