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Grazed grass herbage intake and performance of beef heifers with predetermined phenotypic residual feed intake classification.
Animal : an international journal of animal bioscience - 1 Oct 2012
Lawrence P, Kenny D A, Earley B, McGee M
Abstract excerpt
Data were collected on 85 Simmental and Simmental × Holstein-Friesian heifers. During the indoor winter period, they were offered grass silage ad libitum and 2 kg of concentrate daily, and individual dry matter intake (DMI) and growth was recorded over 84 days. Individual grass herbage DMI was determined at pasture over a 6-day period, using the n-alkane technique. Body condition score, skeletal measurements,...
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