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D.P. Berry, …, R.D. Evans Livestock Science • Volume 234 • 1 April 2020 Subjective linear scoring of live beef cattle is routinely undertaken as part of breed society regulations or as part of national breeding programs; linear scores describe biological extremes of animals for a range of different traits reflecting muscularity, skeletal ...
Apr 1, 2021 · D.P. Berry secured the research funding, helped develop the research question, undertook the association analyses and drafted the manuscript. M.M. Kelleher also helped develop the research question, undertook the genetic evaluation and helped draft the manuscript.
- D.P. Berry, M.M. Kelleher
- 2021
Residual feed intake (RFI), which is the difference between expected intake and that predicted based on energy demands, is now the most commonly used measure of feed efficiency over a given time period. However, RFI, as commonly defined, is independent of growth rate, which may affect its acceptance by industry.
- D. P. Berry, J. J. Crowley
- 2012
D.P. Berry's 105 research works with 3,045 citations and 17,759 reads, including: Predicting methane emissions of individual grazing dairy cows from spectral analyses of their milk...
Apr 28, 2020 · Heteropaternal superfecundation may be defined as the fertilisation of two or more ova during the same oestrus cycle as a result of more than one coital act from different males; this results in foetuses being born in the same litter of the same age but different paternity.
- Donagh P. Berry, A. Bohan, A. C. O’Brien, F C Campion, N. McHugh, E. Wall
- 2020
Abstract. Much of the research to date on dairy × beef matings has focused only on the greater revenue attainable from these beef-cross calves. The objective of the present study was to quantify the mean effect on cow performance following the birth of calves differing in beef merit; all calves were born without calving assistance.
PMID: 22439945. DOI: 10.1017/S1751731110002120. Abstract. Enormous progress has been made in the selection of animals, including cattle, for specific traits using traditional quantitative genetics approaches.
