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. 2018 Sep 20;9:68. doi: 10.1186/s40104-018-0282-9

Table 2.

Summary of feed intake and performance data for high and low RFI animals (n = 9 bulls, n = 8 heifers)

Trait  Bulls Heifers P d
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