Cattle Feed Intake - CFIT

Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics (QGG) at Aarhus University in Foulum is the main research partner of the CIFT project with a total of 43 person-months for senior researchers and 110 person-months of postdoc work planned in the project. QGG research will develop the statistical models to analyze 3D camera image data to predict the feed efficiency, negative energy balance, lameness, and early warning of sick animals. In collaboration with SEGES, QGG will develop genomic evaluation models for CFIT traits, and, in collaboration with ANIS, evaluate economics of CFIT traits in the breeding goal.