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The dual purpose Belgian Blue
... 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 ...
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Effect Of Imbalance Between Energy And Nitrogen Supplies On Microbial Protein Synthesis And Nitrogen Metabolism In Growing Double-Muscled Belgian Blue Bulls
... 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 ...
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Case report : A suspicion of cortico-cerebral necrosis in a Belgian Blue herd after ingestion of moulded silage
... a Belgian Blue 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 ...
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Comparative responses to sodium selenite and Sel-Plex® organic selenium supplements in Belgian Blue cows and calves
... 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 ...
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Effect of imbalance between energy and nitrogen supplies on microbial protein synthesis in growing double-muscled Belgian Blue bulls.
... 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 ...
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Performances of Adaptive MultiBLUP, Bayesian regressions, and weighted-GBLUP approaches for genomic predictions in Belgian Blue beef cattle.
... 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 ...
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Combined use of quantitative and molecular data in genetic evaluations for milk production of dual-purpose Belgian Blue Cows
... Ddual-Purpose Belgian Blue Breed (DP-BBB) During the latter part of the 19th century local Belgian, mostly black and white, dairy cattle were crossed with ...the Belgian Blue Breed ...
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A simple method to approximate gene content in large pedigree populations: application to the myostatin gene in dual-purpose Belgian Blue cattle
... 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 ...
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Different periods of feed restriction before compensatory growth in Belgian Blue bulls: II. Plasma metabolites and hormones
... 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 ...
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Different periods of feed restriction before compensatory growth in Belgian Blue bulls: I. Animal performance, nitrogen balance, meat characteristics and fat composition
... in Belgian Blue 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 ...
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Effect of duration and temperature of previous vacuum-packed storage on the microbiological quality of Belgian Blue meat packed in high-oxygen atmosphere
... 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 ...
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Effect of duration and temperature of previous vacuum-packed storage on the oxidative stability of Belgian Blue meat packed in high-oxygen atmosphere
... 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 ...
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Balancing selection of a frame-shift mutation in the MRC2 gene accounts for the outbreak of the Crooked Tail Syndrome in Belgian Blue Cattle.
... 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 ...
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Effect of aging time, aging technique (dry- vs. wet-aging) and packaging on tenderness, pigment and lipid stability of Belgian blue beef
... Effect of aging time, aging technique (dry- vs. wet-aging) and packaging on tenderness, pigment and lipid stability of Belgian blue beef Imazaki P.H., Teixeira Gonçalves A., Krantz M., Thimister J. and ...
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Determination Of The Methionine Requirement Of Growing Double-Muscled Belgian Blue Bulls With A Three-Step Method
... 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 Belgian Blue bulls (BBb). In Exp. 1, ...
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Bacterial Intestinal Flora Associated with Enterotoxaemia in Belgian Blue Calves
... in Belgian Blue 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 ...
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Definition of a modern breeding goal in Belgian Blue cattle
... Abstract Objective of this study was to define and derive a modern breeding goal for Belgian Blue cattle. This breed is well known for its hyper-muscularity and current selection is based on this trait. ...
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Age-based partitioning of individual genomic inbreeding levels in Belgian Blue cattle.
... the Belgian Blue Beef (BBB) cattle breed; (2) compare the properties of the model at different marker densities; and (3) compare our model with other ...
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PLANTIGRADY DUE TO A LOCALIZED MYOPATHY IN TWO NEWBORN BELGIAN BLUE CALVES
... The first case is a seven-day-old Belgian blue 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 ...
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Controlled field study comparing organic and inorganic trace elements supplementation in hypermuscled Belgian Blue Breed: clinical aspects
... Selenium (Se), copper (Cu), zinc (Zn) and Iodine (I) deficiencies are frequently observed in cattle in Europe. The Belgian Blue (BB) breed is particularly prone to these deficiencies because of its higher ...
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