Selecting for feed conversion

Date

2011-03-04

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Kansas State University. Agricultural Experiment Station

Abstract

Selecting animals for decreased feed per unit of gain has made small changes in feed conversion over a four-year period. Adjusting for maintenance requirements by using mid weight to 0.75 power was not entirely satisfactory as that ignores differences in growth patterns. Favorable genetic relationships were found between feed conversion and most other economically important traits, especially yearling growth traits.

Description

What's Ahead for Cattlemen? is known as Cattlemen’s Day, 1977

Keywords

Beef, Feed, Gain, Growth

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