Evaluations of genotypexenvironment interactions of beef bulls performance-tested in feedlot or pasture.

Abstract excerpt

Purebred Angus (n = 96) and Polled Hereford (n = 96) bull calves sired by bulls of either low or high yearling weight performance lines were assigned to either creep-fed or non-creep-fed treatment before weaning for four calf crops. For each breed, after weaning in the fall, half of the calves within each of the four groups were fed a high concentrate diet for 189 d after weaning in a feedlot and the remainder...

Topics

• Animal Feed
• Animal Husbandry
• Animal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
• Animals
• Animals, Newborn
• Body Height
• Body Weight
• Cattle
• Genotype
• Male
• Scrotum
• Weaning
• Weight Gain