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Effects on animal performance of a fat concentrate in diets for growing fattening bulls

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 November 2017

L. Istasse
Affiliation:
Service de Nutrition, rue des Vètèrinaires, 45 - 1070 Brussels - Belgium
A. Clinquart
Affiliation:
Service de Nutrition, rue des Vètèrinaires, 45 - 1070 Brussels - Belgium
I. Dufrasne
Affiliation:
Service de Nutrition, rue des Vètèrinaires, 45 - 1070 Brussels - Belgium
A. Gabriel
Affiliation:
Service de Nutrition, rue des Vètèrinaires, 45 - 1070 Brussels - Belgium
C. Van Eenaeme
Affiliation:
Service de Nutrition, rue des Vètèrinaires, 45 - 1070 Brussels - Belgium
J.M. Bienfait
Affiliation:
Service de Nutrition, rue des Vètèrinaires, 45 - 1070 Brussels - Belgium
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Growing fattening bulls in Belgium require diets high in concentrate and low in roughages in order to achieve large live weight gains and high quality carcasses. Sugar beet pulp is usually incorporated at a high inclusion rate in fattening diets. It is supplemented with cereals, by-products like wheat bran or glutenfeed and protein supplements very often of vegetable origin. The fat content of such diet is low. Over the recent years, there has been an increasing pressure from the industry to incorporate fat in fattening diets. Each company produces its own fat concentrate. They are blends of various origins. The present experiments were carried out to assess the effects, on animal performances, of soya oil and linseed, two fat concentrates of vegetable origin incorporated in fattening diets.

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Ruminant Nutrition
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Production 1990

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