Animal Production Science

Article	Citations
Feed additives as a strategic approach to reduce enteric methane production in cattle: modes of action, effectiveness and safety	107
Nutritionism in a food policy context: the case of ‘animal protein’	32
Nutrition, feeding and laying hen welfare	31
Wastes to profit: a circular economy approach to value-addition in livestock industries	28
Milk fatty acid composition, rumen microbial population and animal performance in response to diets rich in linoleic acid supplemented with	27
Effect of dietary supplementation with essential oils and a Bacillus probiotic on growth performance, diarrhoea and blood metabolites in weaned pigs	23
Effects of protein supplementation on Nellore cows’ reproductive performance, growth, myogenesis, lipogenesis and intestine development of the progeny	20
Probiotics and gut health: linking gut homeostasis and poultry productivity	18
Analysis of culling reasons and age at culling in Australian dairy cattle	17
The application of virtual fencing technology effectively herds cattle and sheep	17
Replacing maize with low tannin sorghum grains: lamb growth performance, microbial protein synthesis and enteric methane production	17
Tannin-rich forage as a methane mitigation strategy for cattle and the implications for rumen microbiota	17
A perspective on animal welfare of grazing ruminants and its relationship with sustainability	15
The impact of management, husbandry and stockperson decisions on the welfare of laying hens in Australia	13
Shelter and shade for grazing sheep: implications for animal welfare and production and for landscape health	13
A review of factors affecting the welfare of dairy calves in pasture-based production systems	12
Human food waste to animal feed: opportunities and challenges	12
Competence to thrive: resilience as an indicator of positive health and positive welfare in animals	11
Genetic parameters and trends for lamb survival following long-term divergent selection for number of lambs weaned in the Elsenburg Merino flock	11
Cattle welfare aspects of production systems in the tropics	11
Organic side streams (bioproducts) as substrate for black soldier fly (	11
Repeatability and random regression models to estimate genetic parameters for oocyte and embryo production in the Gir breed	11
Effect of capsaicin supplementation on lactational and reproductive performance of Holstein cows during summer	11
Recent advances in the use of phytochemicals to manage gastrointestinal oxidative stress in poultry and pigs	10
Effects of long-term exposure to music on behaviour, immunity and performance of piglets	10

Impact of hot weather on animal performance and genetic strategies to minimise the effect	10
Productive and reproductive performance of crossbred and indigenous dairy cows at smallholdings in selected towns of Jimma Zone, Ethiopia	10
Selection criteria for feed efficiency-related traits and their association with growth, reproductive and carcass traits in Nelore cattle	10
Increasing the proportion of Leucaena leucocephala in hay-fed beef steers reduces methane yield	10
Advances in genetic selection and breeder practice improve commercial layer hen welfare	10
Thermoregulatory responses, and acid–base and electrolytic balance of indigenous ewes of different coat colour in an equatorial semi-arid region	10
Implications of elevated threonine plasma concentrations in the development of reduced-crude protein diets for broiler chickens	10
Response of broilers to dietary balanced protein. 1. Feed intake and growth	9
Substantial genetic gains in reducing breech flystrike and in improving productivity traits are achievable in Merino sheep by using index selection	9
Genetic parameters of blood urea nitrogen and milk urea nitrogen concentration in dairy cattle managed in pasture-based production systems of New Zealand and Australia	9
Mature herbs as supplements to ruminant diets: effects on in vitro ruminal fermentation and ammonia production	9
Rearing conditions of laying hens and welfare during the laying phase	9
Formulating diets based on whole cassava tuber (	9
Palm kernel cake in high-concentrate diets improves animal performance without affecting the meat quality of goat kids	9
Forage value of vegetative leaf and stem biomass fractions of selected grasses indigenous to African rangelands	9
Reproductive performance of northern Australia beef herds. 2. Descriptive analysis of monitored reproductive performance	8
Benchmarking Australian sheep parasite control practices: a national online survey	8
Individual-level correlations of rumen volatile fatty acids with enteric methane emissions for ranking methane yield in sheep fed fresh pasture	8
Australian cattle herd: a new perspective on structure, performance and production	8
Impact of seawater temperature on the Pacific oyster (	8
New genomically enhanced reproduction breeding values for Merino sheep allow targeted selection for conception rate, litter size and ewe rearing ability	8
Incubation, hatchery practice and the welfare of layer hens	8
Development of Angus SteerSELECT: a genomic-based tool to identify performance differences of Australian Angus steers during feedlot finishing: Phase 1 validation	8
Animal and plant-sourced nutrition: complementary not competitive	8
Leg health of meat chickens: impact on welfare, consumer behaviour, and the role of environmental enrichment	8
Effect of increasing dietary proportion of plantain on milk production and nitrogen use of grazing dairy cows in late lactation	8
Calculation of new enteric methane emission factors for small ruminants in western Kenya highlights the heterogeneity of smallholder production systems	8
Microbiome analysis of the skin of sheep that are resistant or susceptible to breech flystrike	7
Reproductive performance of northern Australia beef herds. 6. Risk factors associated with reproductive losses between confirmed pregnancy and weaning	7
Impact of a multiple-test strategy on breeding index development for the Australian dairy industry	7
New skills, networks and challenges: the changing face of animal production science in Australia	7
Effects of Spirulina (Arthrospira) platensis and Bacillus subtilis PB6 on growth performance, intestinal microbiota and morphology, and serum parameters in broiler chickens	7
Mating weight and condition score are both good predictors of lambing potential for young Merino and Border Leicester Merino ewes across different environments and years in Australia	7
Defining the primary business measure of liveweight production for beef cows in northern Australia	7
An attempt of using public ambient temperature data in swine genetic evaluation for litter-size traits at birth in Japan	7
Genetic parameter estimates for male and female fertility traits using genomic data to improve fertility in Australian beef cattle	7
Utilising dual-purpose crops to produce prime lambs: comparison of White Dorper and Merino sheep on crops and pasture	7
An economic framework to evaluate alternative management strategies for beef enterprises in northern Australia	7
Dry-aged and wet-aged beef: effects of aging time and temperature on microbiological profile, physicochemical characteristics, volatile compound profile and weight loss of meat from Nellore cattle (Bo	7
Cage production and laying hen welfare	7
Gut sensing of dietary amino acids, peptides and proteins, and feed-intake regulation in pigs	7
Can measurements of foraging behaviour predict variation in weight gains of free-ranging cattle?	7
Water quality and management in the Australian pig industry	7
Production and performance of commercial beef breeding females in northern Australia. 4. Factors influencing the occurrence of lactating cows becoming pregnant within 4 months of calving	6
Impact of parasites on Australian laying hen welfare	6
Provision of urea–molasses blocks to improve smallholder cattle weight gain during the late dry season in tropical developing countries: studies from Lao PDR	6
Nutrigenomics in livestock: potential role in physiological regulation and practical applications	6
Lipid microspheres containing urea for slow release of non-protein N in ruminant diets	6
The degree of maternal nutrient restriction during late gestation influences the growth and endocrine profiles of offspring from beef cows	6
Utilising dual-purpose crops in an Australian high-rainfall livestock production system to increase meat and wool production. 1. Forage production and crop yields	6

Supplementation of reduced protein diets with	6
Carcass characteristics, colour and eating quality of beef from late maturing suckler bulls finished at pasture with or without concentrate supplementation or indoors on a high concentrate ration	6
Weight gain and enteric methane production of cattle fed on tropical grasses	6
Tannins from	6
Zinc supplementation improves growth performance in small ruminants: a systematic review and meta-regression analysis	6
Selecting methods of agricultural extension to support diverse adoption pathways: a review and case studies	6
Effects of dietary supplementation with Artemisia argyi alcohol extract on growth performance, blood biochemical properties and small intestinal immune markers of broilers challenged with lipopolysacc	6
Fleece rot in sheep: a review of pathogenesis, aetiology, resistance and vaccines	6
Welfare indicators associated with feed conversion ratio and daily feed intake of growing-finishing pigs	6
Effect of Leucaena leucocephala and corn oil on ruminal fermentation, methane production and fatty acid profile: an in vitro study	6
Differences in bacterial diversity across indigenous and introduced ruminants in the Qinghai Tibetan plateau	6
Strategic supplementation of growing cattle on tropical pastures improves nutrient use and animal performance, with fewer days required on the finishing phase	6
Bayesian genome-wide analysis of cattle traits using variants with functional and evolutionary significance	6
Comparison of virtually fencing and electrically fencing sheep for pasture management	6
The value of stubbles and chaff from grain crops as a source of summer feed for sheep	5
Ultra-small SNP panels to uniquely identify individuals in thousands of samples	5
Supplementation of reduced protein diets with	5
Efficacy of a phytonutrient supplement at different dietary protein contents on growth performance, gut morphology, digestive enzymes activities and stress indicators of broilers subjected to circular	5
Research, development and adoption for the north Australian beef cattle breeding industry: an analysis of needs and gaps	5
Non-infectious diseases and laying hen welfare	5
Influence of season on milk fatty acid profile and sensory characteristics of grazing goats in a Mediterranean environment: a sustainable agro-food system	5
Indicators of functional integrity in production animals	5
Utilising dual-purpose crops effectively to increase profit and manage risk in meat production systems	5
A review of factors affecting the welfare of weaned replacement heifers in pasture-based dairy production systems	5
Determination of ewe behaviour around lambing time and prediction of parturition 7 days prior to lambing by tri-axial accelerometer sensors in an extensive farming system	5
Supplementation of reduced protein diets with	5
Improving the accuracy of predictions for cow survival by multivariate evaluation model	5
Harnessing plant bioactivity for enteric methane mitigation in Australia	5
A simplified approach for producing Tier 2 enteric-methane emission factors based on East African smallholder farm data	5
Herbaceous legumes provide several options for increasing beef cattle productivity in eastern Indonesia	5
Breed and diet influence the ruminal bacterial community of sheep	5
A method for implementing methane breeding values in Australian dairy cattle	5
Effects of extreme summer heat events on nutritive characteristics of dairy pastures in northern Victoria, Australia	5
Immediate prepartum supplementation accelerates progesterone decline, boosting passive immunity transfer in tropically adapted beef cattle	5
Comparison of microbial diversity in rumen and small intestine of Xinong Saanen dairy goats using 16S rRNA gene high-throughput sequencing	5
A review of some aspects of goat meat quality: future research recommendations	5
Sustainability of beef production from brigalow lands after cultivation and mining. 3. Pasture rundown, climate and grazing pressure effects	5
Cow milking order and its influence on milk production in a pasture-based automatic milking system	5
Effect of molasses on fermentation quality of wheat straw ensiled with perennial ryegrass	5
Meta-analysis of the effect of probiotic-yeast (	5
Dual-purpose crops: the potential to increase cattle liveweight gains in winter across southern Australia	5
Platforms to accelerate biomanufacturing of enzyme and probiotic animal feed supplements: discovery considerations and manufacturing implications	5
Reproductive performance of northern Australia beef herds. 7. Risk factors affecting mortality rates of pregnant cows	5
Environmental impacts of the Australian poultry industry. 1. Chicken meat production	5
Effects of faecal microbiota transplantation on the growth performance, intestinal microbiota, jejunum morphology and immune function of laying-type chicks	5
Genetic characterisation of non-descript cattle populations in communal areas of South Africa	5
Sustainability of beef production from brigalow lands after cultivation and mining. 1. Sown pasture growth and carrying capacity	5
Application of circular economy principles to pastoral farming: development of an assessment framework	5
Lamb growth rates and carcass characteristics of White Dorper and crossbred lambs grazing traditional and novel pastures during spring in southern Australia	5
Dynamics and influence of environmental components on greenhouse gas emissions in sub-Saharan African rangelands: a review	5
The effect of molasses nitrate lick blocks on supplement intake, bodyweight, condition score, blood methaemoglobin concentration and herd scale methane emissions in Bos indicus cows grazing poor quali	5
Reproductive performance of northern Australia beef herds. 1. Survey of nutritional, breeding and herd health management practices and of the environment	5
Holstein strain affects energy and feed efficiency in a grazing dairy system	5
Oleic acid, independent of insulin, promotes differentiation of goat primary preadipocytes	5
The societal role of meat: the Dublin Declaration with an Australian perspective	5
The pattern of breeding and management within the New Zealand Thoroughbred breeding industry 2005–2015. (II) The mare population	4
Increased light scattering in electrically stimulated beef longissimus muscle fibres contributes to the observed meat colour at grading	4
Intake and liveweight gain of fattening cattle is depressed at high levels of cassava bagasse inclusion in a quadratic dose-response relationship	4
The challenge to reduce crude protein contents of wheat-based broiler diets	4
Livestock guardian dog protection of free-range poultry from the red fox	4
The pattern of breeding and management within the New Zealand Thoroughbred breeding industry 2005–2015. 1. The stallion population	4
Benchmarking to drive improvements in extensive beef cattle welfare: a perspective on developing an Australian producer-driven system	4
Effects of different concentrations of eugenol in maturation medium on bovine oocytes, oxidative status and preimplantation embryos	4
Genetic evaluation of lactation persistency in the Gyr breed by using a two-trait random regression model	4
Bone mineralisation status of broilers fed reduced-protein diets supplemented with	4
Impact of missing pedigrees in single-step genomic evaluation	4
Disentangling the behavioural and fibre influences of nesting enrichment for sows on piglet survival	4
Effects of photoperiod on thyroid gland development and function in growing chicks: a biochemical and morphometric study	4
Biological additives improved qualities,	4
Demonstrating the value of herd improvement in the Australian dairy industry	4
Response of broilers to dietary balanced protein. 2. Determining the optimum economic level of protein	4
Genetic parameters for methane emissions in Australian sheep measured in portable accumulation chambers in grazing and controlled environments	4
Optimal sheep stocking rates for broad-acre farm businesses in Western Australia: a review	4
Comparison of smartphone and lab-grade NIR spectrometers to measure chemical composition of lamb and beef	4
Welfare implications of bacterial and viral infectious diseases for laying hens	4
Motivations for Swiss veal farmers to adopt calf health management strategies that enable reduction in antibiotic use	4
Effects of germination on the energy value of cereal grains for livestock	4
Effect of dietary inclusion of yellow mealworm (	4
Feed conversion efficiency in sheep genetically selected for resistance to gastrointestinal nematodes	4
Utilising dual-purpose crops in an Australian high-rainfall livestock production system to increase meat and wool production. 2. Production from breeding-ewe flocks	4

Automated feeding of sheep. 2. Feeding behaviour influences the methane emissions of sheep offered restricted diets	4
Phosphorus supplementation improves the growth and reproductive performance of female Brahman cattle grazing phosphorus-deficient pastures in the Victoria River District, Northern Territory, Australia	4
Prediction of dressing percentage, carcass characteristics and meat yield of goats, and implications for live assessment and carcass-grading systems	4
Dietary supplementation with biosynthesised nano-selenium affects growth, carcass characteristics, meat quality and blood parameters of broiler chickens	4
Finding alternative uses for Australian rosella (	4
Dual-purpose cropping: the opportunity for a step change in production in the temperate region of Australia	4
Provision of straw and the presence of undocked lambs reduce the behavioural and physiological expressions of pain and stress associated with tail docking in lambs: a preliminary study	4
Variation in reticulo-rumen volumes between and within sheep breeds and genetic relationships with production traits	4
Effects of grass- and concentrate-based finishing systems on the quality of meat from the	4
Animal welfare and biosecurity assessment: a comparison between Italian and Irish beef cattle rearing systems	4
Rumen temperature is a reliable proxy of core body temperature in sheep (	4
The influence of observing a maternal demonstrator on the ability of lambs to learn a virtual fence	3
Strategies to minimise the impact of climate change and weather variability on the welfare of dairy cattle in New Zealand and Australia	3
ImmuneDEX: updated genomic estimates of genetic parameters and breeding values for Australian Angus cattle	3
Effects of heat stress on	3
Selection strategies for beef cow size and condition	3
Partial replacement of sugarcane with cactus (Opuntia stricta) cladodes improves milk yield and composition in Holstein dairy cows	3
An investigation of pathways for rebuilding Australia’s sheep flock	3
Quantification of behavioural variation among sheep grazing on pasture using accelerometer sensors	3
Application of machine-learning algorithms to predict calving difficulty in Holstein dairy cattle	3
Dietary condensed tannins in bovine faeces and effects on soil microbial dynamics: are there environmental benefits for cattle production systems?	3
Bio-economic evaluation of grazing-management options for beef cattle enterprises during drought episodes in semiarid grasslands of northern Australia	3
Bypass fat enhances liveweight gain and meat quality but not profitability of smallholder cattle fattening systems based on oil palm frond	3
Proximity sensors provide an accurate alternative for measuring maternal pedigree of lambs in Australian sheep flocks under commercial conditions	3
Can a return to small ruminants increase profitability and drought resilience in the semiarid rangelands of northern Australia?	3
Development of rapid and sensitive loop-mediated isothermal method for on-site visual identification of tissue origin of pig by using mitochondrial COI gene sequences	3
Analysis of X chromosome and autosomal genetic effects on growth and efficiency-related traits in sheep	3
An investigation of interventions associated with improved cattle and buffalo reproductive performance and farmer knowledge on smallholder farms in Lao PDR	3
Calcitic seaweed (	3
Effect of	3
Effects of montmorillonite on the growth performance, immunity, intestinal morphology and caecal microflora of broilers	3
Future application of an attention bias test to assess affective states in sheep	3
Validation of hand-held refractometers for assessing Merino ewe colostrum and neonatal lamb serum	3
Preliminary comparison of skin transcriptome from sheep with different wool fibre diameters	3
The Sustainability Index: a new tool to breed for reduced greenhouse-gas emissions intensity in Australian dairy cattle	3
Fleece rot and dermatophilosis (lumpy wool) in sheep: opportunities and challenges for new vaccines	3
The Modular Breeding Program Simulator (MoBPS) allows efficient simulation of complex breeding programs	3
Utilising Gliricidia sepium leaf meal as a protein substitute in cassava-based supplements to increase average daily gain of Ongole bulls and income of smallholder farmers	3
Within-breed selection is sufficient to improve terminal crossbred beef marbling: a review of reciprocal recurrent genomic selection	3
Yield measurement is valuable for pricing beef carcasses	3
Performance of lactating buffaloes in pasture supplemented with palm-kernel cake	3
The effect of a social facilitator cow on the distance walked and time spent walking by abruptly weaned beef calves	3
The use of industrial hemp (Cannabis sativa) on farm animal’s productivity, health and reproductive performance: a review	3
Predicting metabolisable energy intake by free-ranging cattle using multiple short-term breath samples and applied to a pasture case-study	3
Long-term effects of extensive grazing on pasture productivity	3
Pasture allowance and duration: the effect of restriction on dry-matter intake, energy balance and indicators of metabolic health in early lactation dairy cows	3
The role of microbiota in animal health and productivity: misinterpretations and limitations	3
Profile of the poultry system and the socio-economic impact of native chickens as a potential development area in South Sulawesi, Indonesia	3
Sensor-based detection of parturition in beef cattle grazing in an extensive landscape: a case study using a commercial GNSS collar	3
A biological integrity framework for describing animal welfare and wellbeing	3
Reaction-norm analysis of neonatal lamb mortality suggests heritability varies with cold-stress: an example in the Elsenburg Merino selection lines	3
Discovery of single nucleotide polymorphisms in bone morphogenetic protein (	3
Rumen bacteria and feed efficiency of beef cattle fed diets with different protein content	3
Collagen, intramuscular fat and proteolysis affect Warner-Bratzler shear-force of muscles from Bos taurus breed types differently at weaning, after backgrounding on pasture, and after feedlotting	3
Selection criteria for frame score and its association with growth-, reproductive-, feed efficiency- and carcass-related traits in Nellore cattle	3
Revisiting tropical pasture intake: what has changed in 50 years?	3
Sustainability of beef production from brigalow lands after cultivation and mining. 2. Acland Grazing Trial pasture and cattle performance	3
Heat stress effects in primiparous and multiparous lactating crossbred cows under a warm environment and their responses to a cooling treatment	3
Calcium and magnesium supplementation of ewes grazing pasture did not improve lamb survival	3
Effect of a probiotic (	3
Influence of antral follicle count on in vitro embryo production, sexual precocity and conception rate of Senepol cattle	3
Optimisation of antioxidant, antimicrobial and metal-chelating properties of bioactive peptides from blood wastes by enzymatic hydrolysis	3
Automated feeding of sheep. 1. Changes in feeding behaviour in response to restricted and ad libitum feeding	3
Single-step genomic evaluation of lambing ease in Australian terminal sire breed sheep	3
Genetic parameters for milk yield, casein percentage, subclinical mastitis incidence and sexual precocity using Bayesian linear and threshold models	3
Dermatophilosis (lumpy wool) in sheep: a review of pathogenesis, aetiology, resistance and vaccines	3
Skim-Nanopore sequencing for routine genomic evaluation and bacterial pathogen detection in cattle	3