Citation Information

  • Title : Effect of feeding whole crop barley silage- or whole crop rye silage based-TMR and duration of TMR feeding on growth, feed cost and meat characteristics of Hanwoo steers.
  • Source : Journal of Animal Science and Technology
  • Volume : 54
  • Issue : 2
  • Pages : 111-124
  • Year : 2012
  • DOI : 10.5187/JAST.201
  • ISBN : 10.5187/JAST.2012.54.2.111
  • Document Type : Journal Article
  • Language : English
  • Authors:
    • Song, M.
    • Choi, C.
    • Sohn, Y.
    • Jang, S.
    • Jeong, J.
    • Qin, W.
    • Kim, J.
    • Jin, G.
  • Climates:
  • Cropping Systems: Barley. Rye.
  • Countries: Republic of Korea.

Summary

Feeding trial was conducted with 80 Hanwoo steers (7.5 months of age, 204.4 kg body weight) for 680 days from growing period to late fattening period to examine the feeding value of whole crop barley silage TMR (BS-TMR) and whole crop rye silage TMR (RS-TMR) on body gain, feed cost, slaughter characteristics and quality characteristics of longissimus dorsi muscle. Dietary treatments were conventional separate feeding of concentrate and rice straw (control), feeding BS TMR up to middle fattening period and same diet as for control during late fattening period (BS-TMR I), feeding BS-TMR for whole experimental period (BS-TMR II), feeding RS TMR up to middle fattening period and same diet as for control during late fattening period (RS-TMR I) and RS TMR for whole experimental period (RS-TMR II). Sixteen castrated calves were assigned to each treatment (4 pens, 4 heads per pen). Pens in each treatment were randomly distributed. Feeding both BS silage TMR and RS silage TMR slightly increased body gain of Hanwoo steers at the stages of growing and early fattening, and increased (P

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