Because beef animals are usually fed to a certain end weight, animals that reach that goal more quickly may increase profitability. Further, because ADG and feed efficiency are closely tied to cost of gain, measures of feed efficiency are important for the commercial cow-calf, stocker, and ...
One cow releases between 70 and100kg of methane every year, and there are around 1.5billion cows in the world today.It's not that simple. A lot also depends on how the meat is produced. Most meat is mass-produced by large-scale industry, and this can come with a heavy environmental ...
Nutritional influence on fertility in Israeli dairy herds with an average 305-day production per cow of 8000 kg of fat-corrected milk. Theriogenology 9:393.Mayer, E., Francos, G., Davidson, M., 1978. Nutritional influence on fertility in Israeli dairy herds with an average 305-day ...
Being in Kythera reawakens part of my culinary soul. Of course I was eating the delicious food that originated from Kythera from the moment I started on solids. And many traditions followed my family across the sea to their new homes in Australia. But being in my homeland connects me to ...
Total length Weight in kg (and lb). Reference 1 , 292 198.2 (437) ,Baker, 1891 2 , – 236.2 (520.8) ,Brown, 1893 3 , - 203 (448) ,Lockyer, 1876 4, – 158.5 (349.5) ,Sanderson, 1879 5, – 161 (355) ,Inverarity, 1888 6, 283 172.4 (380) ,Lydekker et al., 1897 7, ...
Average daily gain on pastures ranged from a low of 0.63 kg d-1 on cicer milkvetch (CMV; Astragalus cicer L.) in 2011 and 2013 to a high of 1.03 kg d-1 on Norcen BFT in 2013. Feedlot gains ranged from 1.14 to 1.57 kg d-1. Blood plasma fatty acids did not differ when feeding...
Discounts were given for HCW extremes as well (409 to 431 kg, -$0.64; 432 to 454 kg -$11.39; >454 kg, -$19.71). Input costs included annual cow costs ($327.77), veterinary/medical and labor ($35 per animal), feed markup ($22/t), yardage ($0.25/d per animal), and interest ...
Only one male calf was born in this study in each treatment; although placental data were kept and used in the analysis. One cow in the MOD group experienced retention of fetal membranes; therefore, placental weight was not obtained. Analysis of variance was performed using the function lmer ...
The highest MY (≥8,500kg) occurred with the earliest AFC of 780 d. Higher MY led to lower conception rates in cows, but the highest MY group also had the shortest days open (106 d) and a calving interval of 386 d. The same MY group had the highest cow depreciation costs, net ...