The effects of increasing dietary roughage level and slaughter weight on the feedlot performance and carcass characteristics of bulls and steers

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Price, M. A.
  • Berg, R. T.
  • Jones, S. D. M.
  • Mathison, G. W.

• A serial slaughter experiment is described comparing 45 bulls and 44 implanted steers. Nine of each 'sex' were slaughtered at the start of the trial and the remaining 71 were fed diets containing three roughage levels (20%, 50% and 80% alfalfa-brome hay) to two pen-average slaughter weights (450 kg or 580 kg).

• Date created

  1980

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Carcass
  • Cattle
  • Growth
  • Beef production

• Type of Item

  Article (Published)

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3MK65B04

• License

  © 1980 Price, M.A., S.D.M. Jones, Mathison, G.W. and Berg, R.T. This version of this article is open access and can be downloaded and shared. The original author(s) and source must be cited.