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Evaluation of the effects of corn silage maturity and kernel processing on steer growth performance and carcass traits.
Journal of animal science - 3 Jan 2023
Francis Forest L, Gubbels Erin R, Hamilton Thomas G, Walker Julie A, Rusche Warren C, Smith Zachary K
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Two experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of feeding kernel processed corn silage to growing calves at 65% inclusion (dry matter [DM] basis; Exp. 1] and finishing beef steers at 20% inclusion (DM basis; Exp. 2). In Exp. 1, steers (n = 184; initial shrunk body weight [BW] = 388 ± 22.3 kg) were used to evaluate the influence that kernel processing of corn silage has on production responses when fed...
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