Effects of replacing grass silage with either maize or whole-crop wheat silages on the performance and meat quality of beef cattle offered two levels of concentrates

Animal

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 613-623

  Keady, T W J ^a,b,c,d   Lively, F O ^a   Kilpatrick, D J ^b,c   Moss, B W ^b,c  

^a AGRI FOOD AND BIOSCIENCES INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Agriculture and Rural Development for Northern Ireland ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^d TEAGASC   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Beef cattle; Grass silage; Maize silage; Meat quality; Whole crop wheat silage

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; NITROGEN; STARCH;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEEF CATTLE; BULLOCK; CARCASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTION; ENERGY; FOOD INTAKE; GRASS; MAIZE; MALE; MEAT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; SARCOMERE LENGTH; SILAGE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WEIGHT GAIN; WHEAT;

ANIMALIA; BOS; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 34247590109     PISSN: 17517311     EISSN: 1751732X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1751731107685024     Document Type: Article

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