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Intake, growth rate and carcass quality of beef cattle fed forage mixtures of grass silage and maize silage

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2017

E.M. Browne ,
M.J. Bryant ,
D.E. Beever  and
A.V. Fisher
E.M. Browne
Affiliation:
The University of Reading, Department of Agriculture, Earley Gate, PO Box 236, Reading RG6 6AT, UK
M.J. Bryant
Affiliation:
The University of Reading, Department of Agriculture, Earley Gate, PO Box 236, Reading RG6 6AT, UK
D.E. Beever
Affiliation:
The University of Reading, Department of Agriculture, Earley Gate, PO Box 236, Reading RG6 6AT, UK
A.V. Fisher
Affiliation:
The University of Bristol, Division of Food Animal Science, Langford, Bristol, BS40 5DU, UK
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Replacing grass silage with maize silage in the diets of finishing beef cattle can improve DM intake and performance even when starch content of the maize silage is low (McCabe, O'Mara and Caffery, 1995). The objective of this experiment was to investigate the response of beef cattle fed diets containing different proportions of maize silage and grass silage with the same level of concentrate supplementation.

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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science , Volume 2000 , 2000 , pp. 72
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Science 2000

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References

McCabe, N.H., O'Mara, F.P. and Caffery, P.J. (1995). Evaluation of Maize Silage in the Diet of Finishing Steers. British Society of Animal Science Winter Meeting, Paper 162.CrossRefGoogle Scholar