Value of rice mill feed as a feedstuff for backgrounding heifers

Value of rice mill feed as a feedstuff for backgrounding heifers

Brazle, F.K.; Coffey, K.P.

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Publication Date: 1990

Conference: Cattlemen's Day, 1990, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, February, 1990
Starting Page: 25, Ending Page: 27
Publisher: Kansas State University. Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service

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Abstract:

Stocker heifers were fed diets of either 67% rice mill feed + 33 % dehydrated alfalfa pellets (RA) or a 67% grain sorghum + 33% dehydrated alfalfa pellets (GA). The RA heifers consumed more feed daily but gained slower (P<.05), resulting in poorer feed efficiency. RA heifers also had a lower percentage shrink (P<.05) during the first 2 1/2 hr of simulated trucking. Rice mill feed is a poor feedstuff for growing calves when included in rations at high levels.

Keywords: Beef; By-products; Rice mill feed; Backgrounding

URL for this item: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/6424

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