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A note on the comparison of barley-urea, maize gluten and rapeseed meal as supplements to ad libitum winter wheat straw for spring-calving suckler cows

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2010

D. Pullar  and
I. Rigby
D. Pullar
Affiliation:
ADAS High Mowthorpe, Duggleby, Malton YO17 8BP
I. Rigby
Affiliation:
AD AS Headquarters, Oxford Spires Business Park, The Boulevard, Kidlington OX5 1NZ
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Abstract

The effects on animal performance of barley-urea (BU), maize gluten (MG) and rapeseed meal (RSM) offered with ad libitum winter wheat straw, were examined with 138 pregnant Hereford (♂ × Friesian ♀ cows over two winters (1987/88 and 1988/89). In each year, seven young cows and 16 old cows per treatment were offered respectively 3·0 or 1·5 kg fresh weight per head per day, of BU, MG or RSM for 167 days. There were no treatment effects on live weight, condition score or calf birth weight. In terms of animal performance BU, MG and RSM were equally effective.

Keywords

barleymaize glutenrapeseed oil mealstrawsuckler cowsurea
Type
Research Article
Information
Animal Production , Volume 57 , Issue 1 , August 1993 , pp. 169 - 173
Copyright
Copyright © British Society of Animal Science 1993

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