Table 2.
Trait | Bulls | Heifers | P d | ||||||
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High RFIa | Low RFI | SDf | High RFI | Low RFI | SD | RFI | Ge | RFI × G | |
DMI, kg/d | 10 | 8.9 | 1.08 | 9.4 | 8.8 | 0.6 | 0.0025 | 0.28 | 0.309 |
RFI, kg DM/d | 0.59 | −0.5 | 0.58 | 0.42 | −0.55 | 0.5 | < 0.0001 | 0.29 | 0.34 |
MMBW0.75, kgb | 97.01 | 97.04 | 8.64 | 93.39 | 93.5 | 4.06 | 0.87 | 0.2 | 0.79 |
Initial BW, kg | 388.5 | 382.16 | 54.91 | 375.8 | 364.5 | 32 | 0.5 | 0.62 | 0.95 |
Final BW,kg | 516.05 | 508.6 | 54.28 | 460.8 | 458.4 | 36.1 | 0.75 | 0.011 | 0.82 |
ADG, kg | 1.82 | 1.8 | 0.33 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0.68 | 0.001 | 0.62 |
Backfatchangec, mm | 1.45 | 2.01 | 0.69 | 1.17 | 1.46 | 0.72 | 0.18 | 0.14 | 0.62 |
DMI Dry matter intake, RFI Residual feed intake, ADG Average daily gain, MMBW Midtest metabolic body weight
aHigh RFI is feed inefficient and low RFI is feed efficient
bMetabolic BW0.75, kg is determined as BW0.75 in the middle of the RFI measurement period which was estimated from the intercept and slope of the regression line after fitting a linear regression line through all metabolic BW (BW0.75) observations
cBack fat change is mean of fat depth at endminus mean of fat depth at start of the feed intake recording period
dP P-value
eG Gender
fSD Standard Deviation