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1985
Price, M. A., Butson, S., Chaudhary, Z. I., Makarechian, M.
Thirty-two cull cows aged from 1 to 13 yr were allocated to five age groups and fed individually for 82 days, then slaughtered. Half of the cows within each group were implanted with 36 mg of zeranol. Zeranol had no significant effect on average daily gain, feed efficiency or backfat thickness,...
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1995
Makarechian, M., Price, M. A., Huedepohl, C., Liu, M. F.
Records taken on 372 young beef bulls tested at the Ellerslie Bull Test Station, Alberta, Canada from November 1981 to April 1987 were analyzed to quantify the effects of age of dam, on-test age, on-test liveweight and gerd of origin of bull on feed efficiency (feed/gain, kg/kg) in the test...
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1980
Jones, S. D. M., Berg, R. T., Price, M. A.
A trial is reported comparing half-carcass fat partitioning in 12 bulls and 12 heifers each of two breed-types: Hereford (HE) and Dairy Synthetic (DY). These animals were serially slaughtered from weaning (163 ± 15.1 (SE) days) to approximately 16 mo of age. After slaughter, one side of each...
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1980
Price, M. A., Berg, R. T., Jones, S. D. M.
A trial is reported comparing fat distribution in carcasses from bulls and heifers of two breed-A trial is reported comparing fat distribution in carcasses from bulls and heifers of two breed-types: types: Hereford (HE) and Dairy Synthetic (DY). Twelve bulls and twelve heifers of each breed were...
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1993
Jones, S. D. M., Newman, J. A., Vincent, B. C., Price, M. A.
A total of 120 crossbred heifers (initial weight = 270 ± 3 kg) were used in a project to evaluate a once-calved-heifer system of beef production. They were reared on a cereal silage–grain diet and, beginning at an average age of 385 d, exposed during a 6-wk breeding period to bulls of breeds...
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2004
Price, M. A., Chen, J-Q., Okine, E. K., Khorasani, G. R.
Four diets in which peas progressively replaced barley [0% (0P), 30% (30P), 50% (50P), and 100% peas (100P)] and one in which canola meal (CM) replaced 10% of the barley, were fed to 90 beef heifers (initial weight 215.8 ± 13.8 kg). The heifers achieved average daily gains (ADGs) of 0.72, 0.80,...
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Fiber-type proportions and diameters in the longissimus muscle of beef heifers undergoing catch-up (compensatory) growth
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Fifty-three Hereford crossbred heifers (211 ± 28(mean ± SD) kg, 197 ± 13 d of age at day 1) were used to study the effects of mild, chronic feed restriction followed by refeeding on some longissimus muscle fiber characteristics. Five animals were slaughtered on day 1 for analysis of initial...
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Fibre-type characteristics and postmortem glycolysis of bison (Bison bison bison) longissimus lumborum
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Aalhus, J. L., Janz, J. A. M., Price, M. A.
To augment the limited information base, muscle fibre and postmortem glycolytic data from bison longissimus lumborum were compiled. As expected, postmortem glycogen concentration and pH declined while lactate concentration increased. Bison muscle fibres had a greater area, with a greater...
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1978
Price, M. A., Berg, R. T., Jones, S. D. M.
Carcass composition and growth patterns for muscle and bone were compared among three breed-types (Hereford crossbred, (HC), beef synthetic (SY) and dairy crossbred (DC)).
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1996
Aalhus, J. L., Yambayamba, E. S. K., Price, M. A., Jones, S. D. M.
Twenty-four Hereford crossbred heifers weighing 222 kg (22 kg SD) and aged 226 d (13 d SD) on day 0 were used to investigate the effects of feed restriction (period 1) followed by realimentation (period 2) on hepatic and longissimus muscle glycogen metabolites and meat quality. The heifers were...