Three hundred seventy beef steers were used to evaluate the possibility of using individual animal feeding behavior patterns early in the finishing period to classify overall finishing performance, carcass quality, or both. Feeding behavior variables included measures of time spent feeding (physically ...
For the steers ... WA Phillips,EE Grings,RE Short,... - 《Professional Animal Scientist》 被引量: 9发表: 2006年 Influence of prepartum diet type on cow performance and subsequent calf performance Spring-calving, mature Angus, Simmental, and Simmental x Angus cows (n = 191) were utilized...
21. Grading Committee: A committee of three judges will grade the Junior Commercial Steers based on the USDA standard quality and yield grades for slaughter steers. 22. Questions: The Junior Commercial Steer Feeding & Management Committee Chairman will designate a time when the exhibitor may direct...
In Trial 1, trainer animals were six crossbred beef steers and six mature cull beef cows. Newly received calves were allotted to 18 pens with 10 ... SC Loerch,FL Fluharty - 《Journal of Animal Science》 被引量: 90发表: 2000年 Performance, carcass, and palatability traits for cull cows ...
Steers were assigned randomly to a 2 × 3 factorial arrangement of treatments for 28 wk (growing period). From the end of the growing period until slaughter, all steers received the same diet to study the residual effect of treatments fed during growth. Treatments during the growing phase ...
The EW steers had lower intakes (7.29 vs 7.68 kg/d, P =.0008) and better feed conversions (.160 vs.141, P =.0001) than the average of NWC and NW steers. The CON steers were heavier at slaughter than steers (P =.01), and steers were heavier than WAG steers (P =.0004). ...
Two serial slaughter experiments were conducted to compare the liveweight gain and carcass quality of 3yearold Angus steers finished on concentratebased rations with steers finished on high quality spring pasture in New Zealand. Experiment 1 used a feedlot ration of 70% maize grain and 30% ...
A series of seven summer pasture finishing trials with beef steers was conducted to study the effect of adding various types and levels of protein supplements with a full feed of corn on beef cattle performance. Starting weights (approximately May 15) for the cattle ranged from 485 (220 kg) ...
Feeding values for alfalfa presscake and alfalfa molasses in finishing diets for feedlot steers were evaluated in a 122-d comparative slaughter trial utilizing 108 crossbred beef steers (324 kg). Alfalfa presscake (dehydrated and cubed) and alfalfa molasses were compared with alfalfa hay (midbloom...
A total of 117 finishing steers were blocked on weight and assigned to 13 groups of 9 animals each comprising a pre-experimental slaughter group and 12 finishing groups arranged in a 6 (feeding treatments) × 2 (durations of finishing) factorial experiment. The 6 feeding ...