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The Effect of Feeding Pelleted Hay, Pelleted Ear Corn and a Tranquilizer to Fattening Cattle^1,2,3,

University of Minnesota, St. Paul

Abstract

Two experiments with 125 beef cattle were conducted to study the effects of feeding:

1. A limited amount of either baled or pelleted hay;
   
2. ground or pelleted ear corn;
   
3. a tranquilizer.
   

The interactions of pelleted hay with ground ear corn and baled hay with pelleted ear corn were significant (P<.05) with respect to weight gains. Cattle fed pelleted hay had significantly higher carcass grades (P<.01) and marbling scores (P<.05) than cattle fed baled hay. Cattle fed ground ear corn had significantly higher (P<.05) carcass grades than cattle fed pelleted ear corn. Feeding a tranquilizer had no effect upon feed lot performance or carcass characteristics.

¹ Paper no. 4443, Scientific Journal Series of the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station.

² Acknowledgement is due Charles Pfizer and Co., Inc., Terre Haute, Indiana, for partial financial support and supplies of oxytetracycline; Eli Lilly and Co., Indianapolis, Indiana, diethylstilbestrol; and Land O'Lakes Creameries, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota, for pelleting the ground ear corn.

³ The authors are indebted to C. E. Gates, University of Minnesota, for statistical advice.