Feed-a-Gene joint WP2&5 meeting
Members of WP2 (New animal traits for innovative feeding and breeding strategies) and WP5 (Use of traits in animal selection) met in Tours (France) for a joint meeting, on February 8th and 9th.
They discussed a lot of topics during these two days, as detailed below:
- Measurement of individual feed intake of group-housed broilers and rabbits
- New measurements of individual feed efficiency using metabolomics or other metabolical traits
- New measurements of individual digestive ability
- Relationship between microbiota composition and digestive ability (among other factors)
- Efficiency of N utilization
- Measurement of behavioural traits from pigs using cameras
- Genomic studies of feed efficiency traits in broilers and rabbits
- Measurements to evaluate feed efficiency in reproductive females
- Measurements to evaluate responses to stress in relation with feed efficiency in pigs
- Protocols to evaluate the feasibility of selection of social indirect effects for improvement of feed efficiency
- Update of the data and protocol exchanges to plan between WP2 and WP5
- Methodologies for genetic modelling of feed efficiency and robustness
- Methodologies for genomic selection in crossbred animals