The use of different nutritional strategies and mathematical models to improve production efficiency, profitability, and carcass quality of feedlot cattle

Forty eight crossbred steers (BW = 296 ± 16.7 kg) were fed four dietary treatments for 56 d: AL-LS (low starch diet fed ad libitum for a rate of gain of 1 kg/d), AL-HS (high starch diet fed ad libitum), LF-HS (a limit fed high starch diet designed to be isocaloric with AL-LS), and AL-IS (a diet f...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: de Vasconcelos, Judson Tadeu
Other Authors: Sawyer, Jason E.
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: Texas A&M University 2007
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/4690