Use of hop cones in growing beef cattle nutrition

Ruminant Nutrition: Growing Cattle and Beef Breeding Herd

Data from an experiment utilizing 78 individually fed heifers (407 ± 32 kg) were used to determine relationships of G: F and residual feed intake (RFI) to metabolizable protein balance (MPB), purine derivative excretion to creatinine excretion (PD:C) and 3-methyl histidine excretion to creatinine excretion(3MH:C). Heifers were fed steam-flaked corn based diets containing either 0 (NEG) or 1.5% ...

Alpharma Beef Cattle Nutrition Symposium

The concept of improving animal performance through synchronizing ruminal availability of nutrients has been with us for at least 3 decades. Though theoretically appealing, research and eld results have not supported this approach to diet formulation. Why? Essential to successful ruminal synchrony is the ability to predict available amounts and fates of diverse substrates. The substrates come ...

Monozygotic Twin Beef Cattle in Nutrition Research.

or identical, twin beef animals in growth and nutrition studies. The problem of continuous versus discontinuous growth of beef cattle in relation to the economics of beef production is under investigation at the U. S. Animal Husbandry Experiment Station at Beltsville, Maryland, and data now being obtained with identical twins should lead eventually to the production of more pounds of beef per 1...

Trace Mineral Nutrition in Beef Cattle

Minerals can be divided into two main categories, 1) macro-minerals and 2) micro or trace minerals. Macro minerals are minerals that are needed/required in relatively large amounts in comparison to micro or trace elements which are needed/required in relatively small amounts. In general macro minerals are required at concentrations greater than 100 ppm of the diet and are often expressed as a p...

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