Evaluation of protein supplementation for growing cattle fed grass silage-based diets: a meta-analysis

The objective of this meta-analysis was to develop empirical equations predicting growth responses of growing cattle to protein intake. Overall, the data set comprised 199 diets in 80 studies. The diets were mainly based on grass silage or grass silage partly or completely replaced by whole-crop sil...

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Main Authors: A. Huuskonen, P. Huhtanen, E. Joki-Tokola
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014-01-01
Series:Animal
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751731114001517