... Since 1960, the economic context (surplus of milk and lack of meat) was favourable to meat production. Moreover, improvement of caesarean technique allowed breeding double muscled calves. These calves cost twice more ...
... Energy-nitrogen synchronization in the rumen 1819 ing the supply of N and energy-yielding substrates to ruminal microbes suggest that achieving an instanta- neous synchrony is not that crucial to diet formulation ...
... a BelgianBlue herd after ingestion of moulded silage Case report Until August 2002, the dual purpose BB herd was kept on the pasture and supplemented with corn ...
... 1 ?; 2 Alltech Inc., Dunboyne, Co. Meath, Ireland; 3 Swiss College of Agriculture, Zollikofen, Switzerland Introduction The most common problems in bovine medicine are multi-factorial in nature. Beef cattle herds ...
... Gembloux Agricultural University, Passage des Déportés 2, 5030 Gembloux, Belgium, Email: valkeners.d@fsagx.ac.be Introduction Balancing the supply of nitrogen and energy-yielding substrates to rumen micro-organisms was ...
... Compared to other studies (e.g., [ 6 , 11 , 23 ]), the appli- cation of Bayesian methods (or other SNP weighting strategies) resulted in relatively modest gains. One pos- sible reason would be that the traits were highly ...
... Ddual-Purpose BelgianBlue Breed (DP-BBB) During the latter part of the 19th century local Belgian, mostly black and white, dairy cattle were crossed with ...the BelgianBlue Breed ...
... 1 Animal Science Unit, Gembloux Agricultural University, B-5030 Gembloux, Belgium; 2 National Fund for Scientific Research, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium; 3 Department of Research and Development, Walloon Breeding ...
... Table 1. Mean concentration of α -amino nitrogen, urea nitrogen, non esterified fatty acids and creatinine during fattening (CG) or during low growth periods (LGP) lasting for 4, 8, or 14 mo (G2, G3, G4) before a ...
... in BelgianBlue double muscled bulls, slaughtered after fattening (CG) or after low growth periods (LGP) lasting for 4, 8, or 14 mo (G2, G3, G4) followed by a fattening period ...
... Pedro H. Imazaki, Assia Tahiri, Georges Daube and Antoine Clinquart University of Liège, Department of Food Science, Sart Tilman B43b, Liège, Belgium, 4000 TOPIC: Global food safety, B-1. Consumer safety The aim of this ...
... Pedro H. Imazaki, Assia Tahiri, Jacqueline Thimister, Marie-Louise Scippo and Antoine Clinquart Department of Food Science, University of Liège, Sart Tilman B43b, Liège, Belgium, 4000 . Abstract – The aim of this ...
... We herein describe the positional identification of a 2-bp deletion in the open reading frame of the MRC2 receptor causing the recessive Crooked Tail Syndrome in cattle. The resulting frame-shift reveals a premature stop ...
... Effect of aging time, aging technique (dry- vs. wet-aging) and packaging on tenderness, pigment and lipid stability of Belgianblue beef Imazaki P.H., Teixeira Gonçalves A., Krantz M., Thimister J. and ...
... ABSTRACT: The three-step technique was used to determine the requirements of total amino acids (TAA) and the first-limiting amino acid (AA) in growing dou- ble-muscled BelgianBlue bulls (BBb). In Exp. 1, ...
... in BelgianBlue calves is characterised by a high case fatality rate, sudden death, lesions of haemorrhagic enteritis of the small intestine and, quite often an absence of other clinical signs but its cause ...
... Abstract Objective of this study was to define and derive a modern breeding goal for BelgianBlue cattle. This breed is well known for its hyper-muscularity and current selection is based on this trait. ...
... the BelgianBlue Beef (BBB) cattle breed; (2) compare the properties of the model at different marker densities; and (3) compare our model with other ...
... The first case is a seven-day-old Belgianblue male calf weighing 58.00kg. He was born by C-section without abnormalities. He was referred because he was not able to stand up since he was 2 days old. He had ...
... Selenium (Se), copper (Cu), zinc (Zn) and Iodine (I) deficiencies are frequently observed in cattle in Europe. The BelgianBlue (BB) breed is particularly prone to these deficiencies because of its higher ...