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Nitrogen utilization by ruminants during restricted intake of high-concentrate diets.
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Nitrogen utilization by ruminants during restricted intake of high-concentrate diets.
Nitrogen utilization by ruminants during restricted intake of high-concentrate diets.
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M L Sip
M L Sip
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R H Pritchard
R H Pritchard
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1 January 1991
journal article
Published by
Oxford University Press (OUP)
in
Journal of Animal Science
Vol. 69
(6)
,
2655-2662
https://doi.org/10.2527/1991.6962655x
Abstract
A series of experiments was conducted to determine the effects of limit-feeding high-concentrate (LFHC) diets on dietary CP requirements of steer calves. When steer calves were fed 80% concentrate diets at 78 g/kg of BW.75, increasing dietary CP resulted in increased ADG (P less than .001). Average daily gain was increased in steers as daily monensin dosage increased from 120 to 180 mg (P less than .05). Increasing the daily monensin dosage to 240 mg did not increase ADG further. There were no (P greater than .10) CP X monensin interactions, suggesting that the monensin response was caused by improved energy utilization and not be the possible protein-sparing effects of ionophores. Steer calves in the second feedyard experiment expressed similar ADG when provided equal NEg as limit-fed, high-moisture ear corn (HMEC) or when given ad libitum access to corn silage. The basal diet did not affect the steers' daily N requirement for growth. Gain per unit of protein intake declined quadratically (P less than .05) with increasing CP intake, indicating that CP requirements were near NRC estimates on both diets. The corn silage-based diet was less digestible (70.3 vs 77.4%; P less than .01) than the HMEC diet when fed to lambs. Fecal output differed (P less than .10) substantially (342 g/d of corn silage vs 205 g/d of HMEC), whereas fecal N output was only slightly higher (6.97 vs 6.34 g/d, respectively; P less than .10). Limited feeding of higher-concentrate diets to steer calves seemed to be an effective management procedure and did not cause acute digestion upset.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS) Copyright © . .
Keywords
NITROGEN
PROTEIN
CALVES
MONENSIN
STEER
LIMIT FEEDING
G/D
CP REQUIREMENTS
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