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Improving the Productivity of Beef Heifers in Florida [PDF]
EDIS, 2015 Beef replacement heifers are a necessary but costly part of every cow-calf operation. A decision needs to be made to either purchase replacement heifers or raise them on the ranch.
Phillip Lancaster +2 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. [...]
T. Wickersham, C. Oney, J. Sawyer
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Inducing puberty in beef heifers with hormones [PDF]
Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station Research Reports, 1976 1776-1976 "Buffalo to Beef" is known as Cattlemen’s Day, 1976Twenty-six Polled Hereford and Simmental-cross heifers that had not cycled by the beginning of the breeding season were given an ear implant and injected with an estrogen-progestogen compound ...
R. DeBenedetti +4 more
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Effects of LPS-induced inflammation on leukogram and biochemical parameters in feedlot beef heifers
Ciência Animal BrasileiraBeef cattle in feedlot systems may develop diseases associated with endotoxin release, such as lipopolysaccharide (LPS). However, few studies have evaluated experimental acute endotoxemia in beef heifers.
Andressa Stein Maffi +8 more
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Foods, 2023 (1) Background: The selection of raw material and the postmortem processing of beef influence its quality, such as taste. In this study, the metabolome of beef from cows and heifers is examined for differences during aging.
Greta Bischof +6 more
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Protein-energy supplements for beef heifers
California Agriculture, 1984 Recent studies concerned with the growth and development of replacement beef heifers bred to calve as two-year-olds have shown that protein-energy supplementation for such heifers grazing irrigated pasture will enhance average daily gain over ...
J Hull, R Delmas, E DePeters
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EDIS, 2017 Metabolic imprinting is the process by which calf nutrition, during first few months of life, may permanently affect the metabolism and performance of beef steers and heifers.
Philipe Moriel
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Transcriptomic dataset from peripheral white blood cells of beef heifers at weaning
Data in Brief, 2023 Reproductive failure of replacement breeding animals is one of the leading causes of loss to the beef production industry. The losses are further increased due to the inability to diagnose the reproductive potential of the beef heifer prior to the ...
Priyanka Banerjee +3 more
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Beef heifer fertility: importance of management practices and technological advancements
Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology, 2020 The development of replacement heifers is at the core of cow-calf beef production systems. In 2020, the USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service reported 5.771 million beef heifers, 500 pounds and over, are under development for cow replacement.
Sarah E. Moorey, Fernando H. Biase
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