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Journal of Animal Science, Vol 75, Issue 11 2834-2840, Copyright © 1997 by American Society of Animal Science

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Effect of degradable and escape protein and roughage type on performance and carcass characteristics of finishing yearling steers

C. T. Milton, R. T. Brandt Jr, E. C. Titgemeyer and G. L. Kuhl
Department of Animal Sciences and Industry, Kansas State University, Manhattan 66506-1600, USA.

We evaluated protein sources for finishing steers in two randomized complete block design experiments. Experiment 1 used 144 steers (334 kg) with 2 x 3 factorially arranged treatments. Basal diets contained .9% urea or 5.6% soybean meal (SBM) and were either not supplemented or supplemented with additional protein (2%) from blood meal-corn gluten meal (BMCG) or SBM. Steers fed urea-containing diets consumed 4.6% (P < .10) more feed than those fed SBM-supplemented basal diets. On the basis of carcass weights, steers fed diets containing SBM as the basal protein source were 3.8% (P < .10) more efficient than those fed urea-containing diets; supplying additional SBM improved gain efficiency (G/F) 4.3% (P < .10) compared with BMCG. In Exp. 2, 384 steers (367 kg) were fed diets containing 1.0% urea (DM basis) and 10% roughage as either sorghum silage (four diets) or alfalfa hay (two diets). Additional protein was either not provided or provided (2%) as SBM, sunflower meal (SFM), or a 50:50 (N basis) SBM:SFM blend in silage-containing diets; for diets containing alfalfa, additional protein was either not provided or provided (2%) as SBM. Averaged across roughage source, added SBM tended (P = .16) to increase ADG. Dressing percent decreased (P = .09) with added SBM but was higher (P = .04) with alfalfa as roughage source. Feeding alfalfa vs sorghum silage as the roughage source increased carcass adjusted ADG 4.3% (P = .06) and G/F 4.8% (P = .02). Supplementing high-grain diets with SBM enhanced diet utilization, but BMCG was of little value.


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