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Effects of prepartum supplementary fat and muscle hypertrophy genotype on cold tolerance in newborn calves.
Journal of animal science - 1 Aug 1999
Lammoglia M A, Bellows R A, Grings E E, Bergman J W
Abstract excerpt
Effects of feeding pregnant dams supplemental dietary fat during the last 55 d of gestation on cold tolerance of newborn crossbred calves with (Piedmontese cross, P, n = 15) or without (Hereford cross, H, n = 16) the muscle hypertrophy allele was determined. Primiparous F1 dams gestating F2 calves of the respective breeds were assigned randomly within breed to receive gestation diets containing either 2.2 (Low...
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