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SUBMITTER: Tallentire CW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5773546 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tallentire C W CW Leinonen I I Kyriazakis I I
Scientific reports 20180118 1
Modern broiler chickens are a major animal husbandry success story, both in terms of efficient resource utilisation and environmental sustainability. However, continuing artificial selection for both efficiency and rapid growth will be subject to both biological limits and animal welfare concerns. Using a novel analytical energy flow modelling approach, we predict how far such selection can go, given the biological limits of bird energy intake and partitioning of energy. We find that the biologi ...[more]