It is currently estimated that humans and cattle separated over 90 million years ago. Given such a long time of separation, it is ...

New genetic evaluation models known as ‘single-step genomic evaluation models’ predict genetic merits of animals without bias even with ...

Novel use of whole genome sequence data
Whole genome sequence data provides information on the full DNA profile of an individual. This data ...

Monitoring activity levels of individual broilers while they are group-housed can be a challenge. However, information on individual levels ...

Current pig production systems challenge the pigs often more than once in their lives. Resilient pigs will be better able to cope with ...

Decisions in daily farm management practices may be optimized by predicting the performance (i.e. phenotype) of young individuals. ...

Currently variance estimates are estimated using pedigree-based relationships. As the number of genotyped animals increases, new methods of ...

The accuracy of genomic prediction is largely dependent on the size of the reference population. Therefore, the accuracy of genomic ...

We have set-up a data lake stack to store and analyse data collected during a turkey locomotion experiment and showed the scalability of ...

In collaboration with the Technical University of Delft and VORtech, a company specialized in software engineering, researchers at ...

On Tuesday 9 June, an online seminar took place for all industrial and scientific partners of the Breed4Food STW Partnership Programme: ...

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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Recently a new CASA article about ‘Machine learning to further improve the decision which boar ejaculates to process into artificial ...

The activity level of group-housed broilers decreases as birds grow older. That is one of the conclusions of a study where an ...

In collaboration with the Technical University of Delft, researchers at Wageningen University & Research, Animal Breeding and Genomics ...