Effect of breed, gender, housing system and dietary crude protein content on performance of finishing beef cattle fed maize-silage-based diets

Animal

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 771-779

  Juniper, D T ^a   Bryant, M J ^a   Beever, D E ^a,c   Fisher, A V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c Richard Keenan & Co Ltd   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Beef cattle; Breed; Crude protein; Maize silage

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; BEEF CATTLE; BODY FAT; BREEDING; CARCASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOD ANALYSIS; GENDER; MAIZE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DIET; RUMINANT STOMACH; SILAGE; WEIGHT GAIN;

BOS; FRIESIA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 34249058085     PISSN: 17517311     EISSN: 1751732X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S175173110770352X     Document Type: Article

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