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Table 2 Number of records (and number of animals in parentheses) for dry matter intake and traits used to calculate residual feed intake per country

From: Sharing of either phenotypes or genetic variants can increase the accuracy of genomic prediction of feed efficiency

Dataset

DMI

ECM

BW

∆BW

DMIRFI

AUSh

46,144 (824)

 

46,144 (824)

46,144 (824)

46,144 (824)

AUSc

20,384 (584)

20,384 (584)

20,384 (584)

20,384 (584)

20,384 (584)

USA

126,863 (673)

18,485 (676)

127,693 (672)

127,693 (672)

17,568 (671)

CAN

137,517 (755)

38,543 (785)

150,208 (492)

150,208 (492)

13,278 (473)

DNK

34,284 (439)

30,648 (431)

30,777 (429)

30,777 (429)

27,559 (425)

CHE

3887 (95)

2192 (127)

4167 (95)

4167 (95)

297 (63)

  1. Acronyms as described in Table 1
  2. DMI: dry matter intake; ECM: energy corrected milk; BW: body weight; ∆BW: change in body weight; DMIRFI: dry matter intake used to calculate RFI when ECM, BW, and ∆BW had no missing values