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Levels of Supplementation for Grazing Beef Heifers [PDF]
Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences, 2014 The objective of this experiment was to evaluate the effect of providing different levels of a supplement on the nutritional characteristics and productive performance of heifers on pasture during the rainy-dry transition and dry season in Brazil or tropical area.
Carla Heloisa Avelino Cabral +7 more
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Probability of pregnancy in beef heifers [PDF]
Arquivo Brasileiro de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, 2014 This study aimed to evaluate the influence of initial weight, initial age, average daily gain in initial weight, average daily gain in total weight and genetic group on the probability of pregnancy in primiparous females of the Nellore, 1/2 Simmental + 1/2 Nellore, and 3/4 Nellore + 1/4 Simmental genetic groups.
Faria, D.P. +6 more
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Animals, 2021 In beef herds, increasing animal welfare, improving reproductive performance and easing animal management are key goals in farm economics. We explored whether delaying the removal of the intravaginal progesterone device by 24 h in heifers synchronized ...
Aitor Fernandez-Novo +6 more
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Agricultural and Food Science, 2015 The objective of the present study was to determine growth and carcass traits of beef breed bulls and heifers in the Finnish beef cattle population. The data collected from Finnish slaughterhouses included observations of 6323 and 2385 Hereford (bulls ...
Maiju Pesonen, Arto Kalevi Huuskonen
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The effect of gender status on the growth performance, carcass and meat quality traits of young crossbred Holstein-Friesian×Limousin cattle [PDF]
Animal Bioscience, 2021 Objective The objective of this study was to compare growth performance, carcass traits and meat quality in young bulls, steers and heifers produced by crossing Limousin bulls with Holstein-Friesian cows, fattened semi-intensively and slaughtered at 18 ...
Paulina Pogorzelska-Przybyłek +3 more
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Performance of beef heifers supplemented with extruded fat on italian ryegrass pasture
Acta Scientiarum: Animal Sciences, 2016 Productive and reproductive performance of beef heifers grazing on Italian ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum Lam.) were analyzed, comprising animals exclusively on pasture and supplemented animals with extruded fat (0.15 or 0.30% of body weight). The grazing
Dalton Roso +5 more
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Nutritional Programming of Beef Heifers
The Third International Tropical Agriculture Conference (TROPAG 2019), 2020 Sustainability of beef cattle production is, in part, dependent on a supply of females selected andadapted to meet the production environment of a given operation. [...]
Tryon Wickersham +2 more
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Acta Scientiarum: Animal Sciences, 2014 The experiment aimed at evaluating leaf biomass flow, intensity and frequency of defoliation of Alexandergrass (Urochloa plantaginea (Link) Hitch) by beef heifers exclusively on pasture or that grazed and received protein salt.
Lidiane Raquel Eloy +5 more
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Data in Brief, 2018 The reproductive performance of heifers within their first breeding season influences the success of beef cattle operations. Therefore, a means to identify infertile and late breeding heifers before the start of the breeding season holds great promise ...
Sarah E. Dickinson, Fernando H. Biase
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Microorganisms, 2021 In the present study, we evaluated whether the nasopharyngeal, ruminal, and vaginal microbiota would diverge (1) in virgin yearling beef heifers (9 months old) due to the maternal restricted gain during the first trimester of gestation; and (2) in ...
Samat Amat +10 more
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