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A note on the effect of dry season feeding treatment on the subsequent growth at pasture during the wet season of Brahman steers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2010

J. Wadsworth
J. Wadsworth
Affiliation:
Escuela Centroamericana de Ganadería, Apartado Postal 7, Atenas, Costa Rica, Central America
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Abstract

An experiment was carried out over successive years (1982 and 1983) to measure the extent to which live-weight advantage as a result of feeding in the dry season was maintained during the subsequent wet season at pasture. Two ages of Brahman steer (weaners and yearlings) were kept on three dry season treatments (molasses, sugar cane or grazing only) from January to May and then turned out to pasture as a single group until November. Although the molasses and sugar cane treatments produced significantly higher live-weight gains during the dry season the resultant weight advantage at turn-out was largely reduced during the wet season due to compensatory growth exhibited by previously restricted animals. Yearlings were less able to compensate than weaners.

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Research Article
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Animal Production , Volume 47 , Issue 3 , December 1988 , pp. 501 - 504
Copyright
Copyright © British Society of Animal Science 1988

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