twenty male raini goats with an average live weight of 30 ± 2.5 kg and 18 month of age. ,were used in a completely randomized design with 4 experimental diets and 5 replications to study effect of different levels by-pass(udp) protein(2.75, 4.86, 5.91 and 6.97 percent in dry matter) on growth and carcass characteristics. metabolismable energy (me) level of the all diets were similar (10.04 mj m...

Individual growth and feed intake of 36 Angus, 27 Polled Hereford and 30 Holstein steers were determined from 365 to 560 kg live weight. One-half of the cattle in each breed were fed a diet based on high-moisture ear corn and the other one-half were fed a diet based on corn silage. Within each breed X diet group, half of the cattle were implanted with zeranol. Cattle fed the high-moisture ear c...

SAS: Iowa Select Farms, Iowa Falls, Iowa 50126, e-mail: [email protected]; JJZ: Iowa State University; DDP, MBR: NOBL Laboratories orcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) causes production and financial losses in swine herds worldwide.1–3 Several researchers have reported that PRRS virus (PRRSV) infection may have an adverse effect on nursery performance.4,5 Kerkaert, et al.,...

Components of variance for ADG with models including competition effects were estimated from data provided by the Pig Improvement Company on 11,235 pigs from 4 selected lines of swine. Fifteen pigs with average age of 71 d were randomly assigned to a pen by line and sex and taken off test after approximately 89 d (off-test BW ranged from 61 to 158 kg). Models included fixed effects of line, sex...