Abstract Our objectives were to determine how pre-finishing plane of nutrition, season, and breed beef sire affect performance, efficiency, carcass attributes dairy-beef hybrid calves. Dairy × steers (3 7 d age) maintained on either a moderate nutrition or high from 0 12 wk age. Calves (n = 211, BW 122 ± 16 kg) then transported 689 km the OSU Sparks Beef Research Center at an average age 92 1.6...

The contribution of the calf enterprise to profit dairy farm is generally considered small, with beef bull selection on farms often not a high priority. However, this likely change in future as rapid rate expansion herd some countries set plateau and improvements fertility combine reduce proportion breed calves required farms. This presents opportunity increase born, increasing both value sales...

Mature Angus-cross beef cows (n = 228) were used to evaluate effects of prepartum dietary energy source on postnatal growth and carcass composition of progeny in a 2-yr study. Starting at approximately 160 d of gestation, cows were fed diets consisting of 1 of 3 primary energy sources: grass hay (HY), corn (CN), or dried corn distillers grains with solubles (DG). The CN and DG diets were limit-...

This paper reviews current production trends for sheep and beef cattle production in New Zealand and gives some insight into the opportunities for improvement. The New Zealand climate favours pasture growth and this is the key to sheep and beef cattle production with over 95% of the diet being grazed pasture or crop. Exports are the focus of the industry with 92% of sheep meat and 82% of beef e...

With a herd of 209 million cattle, Brazilian beef production estimate for 2023 is 10,935 million tons, representing an increase of 28.9% and accounting for 20% of the world trade. Beef cattle production is constantly evolving; however, there are extremes, ranging from simple existing farm ranges to intensive forage systems, strategic supplementation, updated health and genetic improvement progr...

As the dairy industry continues to grow, more dairy calves are available for dairy, beef, and veal purposes. Rearing systems must be highly efficient to make this industry cost efficient, making the evaluation of rearing methods important to establish the most practical method. A study was designed and conducted to evaluate effects of housing and feeding systems on performance of neonatal Holst...

A total of 568 normal feces from calves on a beef farm in Fukui Prefecture, Japan, in 2011-2012 were examined by RT-semi-nested PCR for rotavirus A (RVA) VP4 genes. Through partial sequencing and BLAST analyses of 84 VP4-positive specimens, we identified an avian-like RVA strain, N2342, which shares highest nucleotide identity (80.0%) with known avian-like bovine strain 993/83, in one specimen....

Abstract In Nepal, a predominantly Hindu country, most communities consider the cow as sacred animal leading to their special place in society. However, male calves are neglected because of limited utility context religiously restricted beef consumption. A cross-sectional survey was conducted among dairy farmers Chitwan district central region Nepal understand rearing practices and associated w...

tongue, (3) apparent muscular weakness, (4) incoordinated movement, and (5) proportionally short legs. The length of forecannon has proved to be the most accurate method of identifying the living dwarf calf at birth. Genetic studies were made to learn if dwarfism in beef cattle was inherited or if it was caused by faulty nutrition. In these genetic studies, cows that had previously dropped dwar...