Performance of Beef Cows Receiving Cull Beans, Sunflower Meal, and Canola Meal as Protein Supplements while Grazing Native Winter Range in Eastern Colorado

Journal of Animal Science

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 750-755

  Patterson, H H ^a,b   Whittier, J C ^a   Rittenhouse, L R ^a   Schutz, D N ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Beans; Performance; Phaseolus vulgaris; Rape Meal

Indexed keywords

BRASSICA NAPUS VAR. NAPUS; HELIANTHUS; PHASEOLUS (ANGIOSPERM); PHASEOLUS VULGARIS; SINAPIS ARVENSIS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; CATTLE; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LEGUME; MEDICINAL PLANT; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN INTAKE; RANDOMIZATION; SEASON; SUNFLOWER; UNITED STATES;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; CATTLE; COLORADO; DIETARY PROTEINS; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FABACEAE; FEMALE; HELIANTHUS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; PREGNANCY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SEASONS;

EID: 0033092877     PISSN: 00218812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2527/1999.773750x     Document Type: Article

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