Growth, body composition and costs of feeding Holstein heifers
Growth and body composition of 121 Holstein heifers (4.6 to 18 mo and 129 to 407 kg) reared on pasture, drylot and pasture-drylot systems were evaluated in 6 experiments. Heifers were switched from drylot to pasture or the reverse to study carry-over effects from previous treatments; both systems we...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/38994 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-07282008-135927/ |