Document Type
Report
Report Number
A.S. Series 71-18
Publication Date
1971
Summary
Eight lots, five or six heifers each, (42 heifers total) were fed one of four diets for 119 days to study the effect of sawdust inclusion in a growing diet on the performance of feeder calves. The diets were alfalfa-concentrate, sawdust-concentrate, corn silage and sawdust silage. (See table 1 for specific diet composition). Trace mineral salt and dicalcium phosphate were fed free choice and vitamin A was supplemented to provide a calculated 10,000 to 12,000 I.U. per head per day. Brome-alfalfa loose hay was provided for the first week during adaptation to the experimental diets.
Number of Pages
3
Type
text
Format
application/pdf
Language
en
Publisher
Department of Animal Science and the Agricultural Experiment Station, South Dakota State University
Recommended Citation
Slyter, A. L. and Kamstra, L. D., "Pine Sawdust as a Roughage Replacement in Feeder Cattle Diets" (1971). South Dakota Cattle Feeders Field Day Proceedings and Research Reports, 1971. 4.
https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/sd_cattlefeed_1971/4