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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"backgrounding"”.
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Effect of Feeding Different Protein and Energy Supplements on Performance and Health of Beef Calves During the Backgrounding Period
… morbidity and possibly death losses. Four backgrounding trials were conducted to examine the effects of protein and energy supplements to stressed calves consuming different forages. Body weights, rectal temperatures and blood samples were taken on d 0, 7, 14, 28 and 42. Supplements …
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Evaluation of By-product Feedstuffs, Level of Concentrate, and Selenium and Vitamin E Injections on Performance and Health of Beef Calves in Backgrounding Systems
… bovine respiratory disease complex (BRDC). Backgrounding cattle post-weaning and prior to feedlot entry may alleviate some of the more common stresses and typically diminished feed intake. Five trials were conducted with a total of 228 weaned calves to evaluate different backgrounding …
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Energy Status of Steers Dictates Effectiveness of Glycerol Inclusion in High-Roughage and High-Concentrate Feedlot Diets
… ruminant diets. Steer calves were used in a 56 d backgrounding study (n=128; Initial BW=340 ± 15 kg) and 105 d finishing study (n=120; Initial BW=420 ± 20 kg). Dietary treatments during backgrounding included 0, 8, 16, and 24% glycerol replacing corn silage in corn silage-based diets. Steers …
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The effect of supplementation strategy, stress level, and tall fescue type on performance of fall-weaned beef calves
… frequently causing bovine respiratory disease. Backgrounding programs facilitate opportunities for calves to overcome stressors by building immunity, and adapting the rumen to high concentrate diets for improved feedlot performance. Four experiments were conducted to compare backgrounding …
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Performance and economic comparison of conventional and non-conventional post-weaning calf management systems
… and raised to a target weight of 635 kg.. In the backgrounding phase, the ADG of MD and LT-CONV steers was 19-22% better than MD and LT-NAT steers (P<0.01). Dry matter intake was 12% higher for CONV steers among all groups (P<0.01). Feed efficiency (G:F) was not different among treatments for MD …
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Use of Nutrition and Precision Technology to Improve Health, Performance, and Alleviate Stress of Beef Cattle
… physiological responses of beef steers during backgrounding and finishing phases. Including a yeast-derived product into a finishing diet containing monensin did not improve performance, physiological responses, and carcass quality of feedlot cattle. Nonetheless, inclusion of the yeast derived …
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Effect of Yeast Supplementation During Various Stages of Beef Production
… for 35 d prior to weaning and through a 42-d backgrounding period. Average daily gain prior to weaning was not different (P ≥ 0.45) between treatments. However, CON had increased (P = 0.01) ADG compared to YP from weaning to the end of the backgrounding period. Microbiome analysis found that …
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Supplementation Strategies for Growing and Finishing Beef Cattle on Tall Fescue Pastures in the Southeast
… time and delivery method in a forage-based backgrounding program. Traditionally, producers choosing to supplement backgrounding cattle with grain or coproduct feeds do so in a single meal event in the early morning. It has been hypothesized that these morning feedings could disrupt the …
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Watery bodies, natures mortes, lost backgrounds and decapitated heads: contemporary painting practice in the Anthropocene
… visual representations of decapitation; and the backgrounding of nature through linear perspective. In each case my painting practice offers alternatives through a range of media, techniques and motifs.
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Reference in Udi narrative discourse
… linguistic factors, such as cohesion, coherence, backgrounding, foregrounding and focus also interact with reference forms.</p> <p>This paper incorporates the Givenness Hierarchy, as proposed by Gundel, Hedberg and Zacharski (1993) and Relevance Theory (Wilson & Sperber 2004) to describe Udi …
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Pronoun interpretation in reading
… pronoun interpretation any more than neutral backgrounding. All the results of Experiments 4-9 contradict the working memory theory. It is concluded that the working memory theory of foregrounding is inadequate to explain the present results, and that an account of foregrounding based on …
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An Investigative Comparison Between Four Approaches to Discourse Analysis Using MT Esther as a Test Case
… especially patterns of foregrounding and backgrounding, the importance of verbal sequencing, and the thematic prominence of reversal. All four approaches identify Esther 6 as the formal and theological pivot of the narrative, where the king’s sleeplessness initiates the reversal that …
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Critical language analysis of Palestinian and Israeli online newspapers and news websites during the 2014 Gaza War
… former depend on common public knowledge, thus backgrounding much contextual information, the latter mainly function via the extensive contextualization of events.
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Growth Promoting Implants and Nutrient Restriction Prior to Feeding: Effect on Carcass Composition, Carcass Quality, and Consumer Acceptability of Beef
… kg/d (UNRSTR) before finishing. Half of each backgrounding group received moderate potency combination hormonal implants (Synovex-S/H; Pfizer Animal Health, Madison, NJ) before finishing (IMPL). At arrival to the feedyard all cattle were implanted with a moderate potency implant and were …
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Effects of early weaning on finishing feed efficiency, marbling development and retail product quality of beef steers
… short ad libitum concentrate-feeding and pasture-backgrounding phase reduced finishing residual feed intake (RFI) by 7 % (P < 0.0001) and increased carcass marbling score (MS) by 10 % (P < 0.01) when compared to conventionally weaned (CW) contemporaries. Similar effects were observed in experiment …
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Analysis of alternative coordination mechanisms for the Saskatchewan cow-calf sector
… is a considerable integration of cow-calf and backgrounding functions. A large majority of producers recognized that declining beef consumption in North America was a problem for the beef industry. This was primarily attributed to the lack of product consistency and not producing the product …
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'All in a day's work' The lifeworld of older people in New Zealand rest homes
… of the residents‟ lifeworld. Supplementing and backgrounding the interviews with these residents, are descriptive data including written interview summaries and survey findings about the relationships and pastimes of 352 residents living in 21 rest homes, which are counted and described. The …
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Effect of Time of Supplementation on Performance and Grazing Behavior of Grazing Steers
… with their environment and season. Traditionally backgrounding operations hand feed any supplement in the morning. However, this practice may interrupt typical grazing patterns during early morning and subsequent rumination during the heat of the day. Self-fed concentrate feeds containing intake …
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Effects of maternal supplementation of trace minerals and fatty acids on beef progeny
… growth performance during pre-weaning and backgrounding periods, and relative mRNA expression of genes associated with myogenesis and adipogenesis. Cows were fed either 0.77 kg/cow/d soybean hulls mixed with 0.155 kg/cow/d of EnerGII (SFA/MUFA), 0.77 kg/cow/d soybean hulls mixed with 0.04 …
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In vitro screening of commercial sorghum hybrids and omega-3 supplementation in Holstein steers
… with respect to in vitro microbial digestion. A backgrounding study using an extruded blend of flaxseed and microalgae product (FAB; greatOplus), was fed to 11 ruminally and duodenally fistulated Holstein steers to assess ruminal microbial modification of the fatty acids present in FAB, as well …
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