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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"stocker cattle"”.
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Alternative management strategies for growing and stocker cattle
… management strategies for limit-fed growing beef cattle and yearling stocker cattle. Previous research reported improvements in feed efficiency when growing cattle were limit-fed a high-energy diet based on corn and corn co-products compared with a traditional high-roughage diet fed for ad libitum …
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Profitability and adoption of limit feeding during the stocker phase
… the profitability and adoption of limit feeding stocker cattle to better assist producers with management decisions. One analysis looks at comparing the profitability of limit feeding or ad libitum feeding stocker cattle, and the other looks at factors that influence producer adoption of limit …
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Exploring producer perceptions for cattle price and animal performance in the stocker industry
Stocker cattle economic research is very limited in scope. A focus of this research is to deepen our understanding of how cattle price and animal performance variability is viewed and approached by stocker cattle producers in the United States. Another part of this research focuses on what …
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Utilization by ruminants of poor quality hay supplemented with different nitrogen and carbohydrate sources
… compared under practical conditions when fed to stocker cattle receiving a hay diet. Sixty cattle were wintered on fescue hay with one of five supplements: 1) none, 2) liquid urea-molasses supplement injected into the bales, 3) liquid-supplement self-fed in lick-tank, 4) mixture of deep-stacked …
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Mitigation of Bovine Respiratory Disease Complex: Interactions of Physiology, Immunology, Nutrition and Management
… and immunological measurements in newly received stocker cattle. Two experiments evaluated timing (d 0 vs. 14) of respiratory, clostridial, or both vaccinations in newly received stocker calves during stress-induced immunosuppression. In Exp. 1, calves receiving 14-d delayed vaccination of a …