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November 20, 2020
On Tuesday 12 November, an online seminar took place for all people who are involved in Breed4Food. Around 85 participants joined the ...
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October 28, 2020
It is currently estimated that humans and cattle separated over 90 million years ago. Given such a long time of separation, it is ...
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October 28, 2020
New genetic evaluation models known as ‘single-step genomic evaluation models’ predict genetic merits of animals without bias even with ...
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October 28, 2020
Novel use of whole genome sequence data
Whole genome sequence data provides information on the full DNA profile of an individual. This data ... -
October 28, 2020
Monitoring activity levels of individual broilers while they are group-housed can be a challenge. However, information on individual levels ...
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July 1, 2020
Current pig production systems challenge the pigs often more than once in their lives. Resilient pigs will be better able to cope with ...
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June 30, 2020
Decisions in daily farm management practices may be optimized by predicting the performance (i.e. phenotype) of young individuals. ...
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June 30, 2020
Currently variance estimates are estimated using pedigree-based relationships. As the number of genotyped animals increases, new methods of ...
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June 30, 2020
The accuracy of genomic prediction is largely dependent on the size of the reference population. Therefore, the accuracy of genomic ...
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June 30, 2020
We have set-up a data lake stack to store and analyse data collected during a turkey locomotion experiment and showed the scalability of ...
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June 29, 2020
In collaboration with the Technical University of Delft and VORtech, a company specialized in software engineering, researchers at ...
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June 15, 2020
On Tuesday 9 June, an online seminar took place for all industrial and scientific partners of the Breed4Food STW Partnership Programme: ...
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April 23, 2020
Researchers of Wageningen Livestock Research have been able to define when a turkey takes a step. This is an important milestone to ...
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April 15, 2020
Read our most recent newsletter. Here you will find a selection of recent publications.
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April 9, 2020
Recently a new CASA article about ‘Machine learning to further improve the decision which boar ejaculates to process into artificial ...
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April 8, 2020
The activity level of group-housed broilers decreases as birds grow older. That is one of the conclusions of a study where an ...
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April 7, 2020
In collaboration with the Technical University of Delft, researchers at Wageningen University & Research, Animal Breeding and Genomics ...