Animal Science, Department of
Nebraska Beef Cattle Reports
Date of this Version
2022
Citation
2022 Nebraska Beef Cattle Report
UNL Beef, Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Abstract
A study was conducted to determine the interaction of urea with the frequency and amount of distillers grain supplementation for growing steers consuming forage. Steers were individually fed for 84 d and received ad libitum grass hay and 1 of 8 treatments. Treatment design was a 2 × 2 × 2 factorial. Supplement was fed either every day or 3x/ week, amount of supplement fed was 13.99 lb/week or 28.00 lb/week, and contained either no urea or 1.3% urea. Supplementation frequency and the inclusion of urea did not impact steer average daily gain. The amount of supplement did impacted steer average daily gain and hay intake as those receiving more supplement had greater gains but consumed less hay. Urea had no significant effect on hay intake. These results suggest that a dried distillers grain supplement can be fed infrequently to growing steers on a high forage diet without reducing animal performance.
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