Evaluation of cotton-gin trash blocks fed to beef cattle11Manuscript No. 12206, approved by the Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Experiment Station, Starkville

Autor: G.W. Stone, B.G. Mullinix, D.R. Tillman, A.N. Franklin, G.M. Hill, J.D. Rivera
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: The Professional Animal Scientist. 29:260-270
ISSN: 1080-7446
Popis: A cotton-plant-material (CPM) block containing cotton-gin trash with dried distillers grains and wheat middlings was evaluated as a beef-cattle feed. In Exp. 1, beef steers (n = 30; initial BW = 453.6 ± 33.9 kg) were individually fed diets for 18 d. Treatments (TRT) were hay only; free-choice (FC) hay with either whole cottonseed, dried distillers grains, or CPM; and CPM fed FC. Total DMI, respectively, by TRT were 6.77, 7.20, 6.67, 15.51, and 15.64 kg/d (P
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