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Effect of level and degradation of dietary protein on performance of feedlot steers

1992
Issue: 4
Volume: 22

H.H. Meissner, H.P.F. du Preez and P.C. du Plessis Page: 128 - 136

2025-05-23
flickerleap

Optimal levels of crude (CP) and undegraded (UDP) dietary protein were studied in feeding systems based on whole maize fed free-choice and on complete mixed diets composed from by-products of the milling industry. On the whole maize free-choice system, animal…

1992
Issue: 4
Volume: 22

H.H. Meissner and P.C. du Plessis Page: 137 - 141

2025-05-23
flickerleap

Twelve steers fistulated in the rumen and duodenum were allocated to one of three diets and fed 80 g DM/kg W0.75/d. The diets consisted of about 80% maize meal, 11% cottonseed hulls and either 1.44% urea (Treatment A), 0.96% urea…