Water Intake in Growing Beef Cattle

Effects of Water Quality on Beef Cattle

Molecular basis for residual feed intake in beef cattle.

Feed provision is one of the greatest costs of beef production and, with the increasing costs of feed, will remain so for the foreseeable future. Improvement in efficiency has the potential to not only increase profits for cattle producers, but also to decrease the environmental footprint of beef cattle production. Both are important in addressing the challenges of increasing feed costs and lan...

Novel endophyte-infected tall fescue for growing beef cattle.

Tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea, Shreb.) is the predominant cool-season, perennial grass in the eastern half of the United States, and the majority is infected with the endemic endophyte (E+) Neotyphodium coenophialum, resulting in millions of dollars in revenues lost to the beef industry. Endophyte-free (E-) tall fescue was initially tapped as a "silver bullet" for the solution to fescue toxi...

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% ...

Growth Implants for Suckling and Growing Beef Cattle - FSA3019

To a great extent, animal growth is regulated by the pituitary gland and its secretions of growth hormone (somatotropin). Implants work by increasing (via the pituitary gland) growth hormone and insulin at the cellular level, which results in increased synthesis of muscle tissue and, frequently, reduced deposition of body fat. This causes a measurable increase in growth rate and improved feed e...