Beyond Feed Intake: Using the Metabolic Efficiency Index to Identify Your Most Efficient Animals
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Beyond Feed Intake: Using the Metabolic Efficiency Index to Identify Your Most Efficient Animals

Farm Inputs and Technology for their use
Husbandry & feeding technology for beef
tiistai, 10. marras 2026
10.00 - 10.30 | Europe/Berlin

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Halle 12 | 12G28
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Measuring individual feed intake can be expensive, slow, and hard to scale. Feeder systems and weeks of data collection put efficiency data out of reach for most dairies. The Metabolic Efficiency Index (MEI) changes that. An animal's metabolic gas output reflects how efficiently it converts feed into energy, so MEI can rank cows without an intake trial. QuickFlux, C-Lock's new measurement technology, delivers individual animal efficiency data in just 2 measurements — three to five minutes per cow at the headlock, no feeders, no adaptation period. This session covers how MEI is derived, how it compares to intake-based measures, and how dairies can screen whole herds instead of test groups.

Sponsors

C-Lock Inc.

Halle 11 / 11C03

Speakers

Brandon Peterson

C-Lock Inc.