Residual feed intake and body composition in young growing cattle

By J. Basarab, M. Price, J. Aalhus, E. Okine, W. Snelling, K. Lyle. 2003

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Feedlot performance, feed efficiency reranking, carcass traits, body composition, energy requirements, meat quality and calpain system activity in Nellore steers with low and high residual feed intake (2012, background): “In addition, other studies have reported no differences in visceral fat mass (Basarab et al., 2003; Cruz et al., 2010) or in backfat thickness between high- and low-RFI cattle (Almeida et al.”
Strategies to improve the efficiency of beef cattle production (2020, methodology): “Dependant on cattle productive stage, RFI can be used to estimate feed efficiency independent of growth rate, body composition, fat deposition, changes in conceptus weight, milk yield, and milk Published by NRC Research Press composition (Basarab et al. 2003; Basarab et al. 2007).”
On the determination of residual feed intake and associations of infrared thermography with efficiency and ultrasound traits in beef bulls (2009, background): “, 2003), 6% (Basarab et al., 2003), 2% (Schenkel et al.”