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CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SCIENCE
Volume 94, Issue 2, Pages 343-347Publisher
CANADIAN SCIENCE PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.4141/CJAS2013-196
Keywords
Barley; corn dried distillers' grains with solubles; carcass; fatty acids; feedlot; steer
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- US Grain Council
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The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of dietary inclusion of low-oil corn dried distillers' grains with solubles (LO-DDGS) on growth, carcass traits and beef fatty acids profiles of finishing feedlot cattle. One hundred and eighty British crossbred steers (450+/-28.5 kg; six pens/treatment) were offered barley grain-barley silage as the control diet with LO-DDGS replacing barley grain at 200 and 300 g kg(-1) dry matter basis in treatment diets. Compared with control, LO-DDGS at 200 g kg(-1) did not affect growth performance or carcass traits, whereas at 300 g kg(-1) it decreased (P < 0.05) gain: feed, but increased (P < 0.05) levels of desirable fatty acids in beef. LO-DDGS can replace 200 g kg(-1) barley grain in finishing feedlot diets without undesirable impacts on growth performance or carcass traits.
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