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An evaluation of beef carcass quality 1. The influence of cereal feeding on the growth and carcass quality of Friesian steers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2010

C. E. Hinks  and
J. H. D. Prescott
C. E. Hinks
Affiliation:
School of Agriculture, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
J. H. D. Prescott
Affiliation:
School of Agriculture, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
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Twenty-four Friesian steers, initially 5 months of age, were involved in a 2 × 2 factorial experiment which spanned grazing and silage feeding periods of 22 weeks' duration. In the first period, cattle were stocked at a uniformly high density, with half of the group being fed 1·25 kg/head per day of supplementary barley. In the second period, the cattle were subdivided into four groups and fed varying levels of barley with silage. Finally all the animals received 3·65 kg/head per day of barley. Replicates of the four treatments were slaughtered at random after 5 to 11 weeks on this treatment. Whilst supplementary cereal feeding significantly increased the live-weight gains of steers at grass by 11%, this live-weight advantage was offset by their slower gains in the final weeks before slaughter. Feeding cereals to grazing cattle had little effect on carcass composition or the proportions of carcass joints, but their beef was considered, by a tasting panel, to be more tender than the meat from the control steers.

Increasing the level of barley fed with silage only increased live-weight gains by 2%, and had little effect on carcass or meat quality.

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Animal Production , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , December 1972 , pp. 215 - 227
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Copyright © British Society of Animal Science 1972

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