1Department of Animal Sciences, NDSU The objectives of this study were to determine the effects of forage inclusion level on growth performance, feeding behavior and carcass characteristics in finishing steers. These results indicate that a decrease in forage inclusion from 20 to 5 percent (dry-matter [DM] basis) in a finishing diet increases dry-matter intake (DMI), average daily gain (ADG) an...

For more than 20 years, dairy producers have been using low DCAD diets in their dry cow feeding programs to prevent milk fever and subclinical hypocalcemia during the transition period. The use of low DCAD diets in dry cows has virtually eliminated the incidence of milk fever in most dairy herds. While dairy producers are well aware of the importance of proper DCAD concentrations in the dry per...

protein nutritional status of dairy cows. Milk urea nitrogen reflects the amount of urea found in milk and these values are closely correlated with the concentration of urea found in the blood. MUN values should not be used by themselves when evaluation a herd’s feeding program but can be used in conjunction with evaluating milk production records, feeding management practices, and dry matter, ...

Kaiser and Shaver (2006) and Bucholtz (2006) reported starch concentrations in diets fed to high-producing dairy herds ranged from 25 to 30 % on a dry matter (DM) basis. Increased corn prices have heightened the interest in feeding reducedstarch diets. Results from short-term dairy cattle feeding trials suggest that reducedstarch diets formulated by partially replacing corn grain with high-fibe...

1. Simple gastric cannulas were surgically fitted to four pigs, initially of 30 kg live weight, to examine the effects of guar gum on gastric emptying. 2. Four semi-purified high-fat diets based on starch, casein, soya-bean oil and tallow were given to each pig. They contained 0 (control), 20, 40 or 60 g powdered guar gum/kg diet. The meals as fed contained 257 g dry matter (DM)/kg. 3. The cont...

Feedlot cattle performance data from 20 trials (n = 350 pen means; representing 3,365 steers) evaluating dietary inclusion of corn wet distillers grains plus solubles (WDGS) were summarized with two meta-analyses. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of WDGS inclusion level with dry-rolled corn (DRC) or a blend of DRC and high-moisture corn (HMC) for either calf-feds or yearl...

The article presents the results of studies on use different dosages feed additive "BioPrimum dry" in diets dairy cows. It was found out that introduction a composition cows at dosage 75 mg/kg dry matter feed, there is an increase blood erythrocytes and hemoglobin by 11.40 6.05%, respectively, compared with analogs control group milk production.

Forty-eight crossbred weaner pigs divided into three groups of sixteen pigs each were used to assess the effect of feeding frequency on the performance and nutrient digestibility. The same type and quantity of feed was rationed once, twice and thrice daily. Performance of pigs fed twice daily was better than those fed once per day. Digestibility of dry matter, crude protein and crude fibre incr...