Supplemental Protein on Performance of Lactating Beef Heifers

Authors

Gene H. Deutscher, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Don C. Adams, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Duane Farthing, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Jim Lamb, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
David Colburn, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Merlyn K. Nielsen, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

January 1997

Comments

Published in 1997 Nebraska Beef Report. Published by The Agricultural Research Division, Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Abstract

Feeding supplement with meadow hay increased weights and rebreeding performance of lactating 2-year-old heifers. Exposing non-cycling heifers to bulls two weeks before normal breeding and flushing on green grass stimulated cycling.