Purebred Jersey steers are often overlooked for beef production due to the perceived poor growth and production. Currently dairy persons marketing their steer offspring are receiving minimal compensation due to lack of demand by beef feeders and a saturated veal market. Twenty purebred Jersey steers were used to evaluate lifetime...
Forty-two fall-calving crossbred cows were equally
allotted to six pens of seven cow-calf pairs each. Two
treatments (0 and 200 mg lasalocid/head/day) with three
replications were used to determine the effects of
lasalocid on fall-calving beef cows. The cows were fed
grass hay, haylage and pasture ad libitum. The cow-calf...
Three experiments were conducted (1) to develop and characterize
polyclonal antibodies against ovine adipocyte plasma membranes (APM),
(2) to evaluate the effect of administering the developed antibodies to
lambs on lamb growth and carcass characteristics, and (3) to investigate
the possibility of using the developed antibodies to identify antigenic
components...
Six experiments were carried out with Single Comb White Leghorn laying chickens to
assess the effect of feeding a source of direct-fed microbials (Lactobacillus; Lacto) and its
carrier [condensed cane molasses solubles (CCMS)] on the retentions of fat, nitrogen and
several minerals; on the status of the pH of the...
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The objective of this thesis is to assess four winter feeding programs of spring-calving brood cows that may improve profitability to ranching operations of the Harney Basin, Oregon. The four feeding strategies include strip grazed rake-bunched hay, supplemented range grazing, strip grazed meadow pasture, and baled hay feeding. These first...
Studies were conducted over a 10-year period to determine the feasibility
of supplementing lactating cows being wintered on native meadow hay. The
interaction between cow feed levels and creep feeding of calves was also investigated.
Results show that a full feed of meadow hay to the cows and no creep...