Efficiency of Converting Nutrients and Cultural Energy in Various Feeding and Grazing Systems
Citation
Cook, C. W., Denham, A. H., Bartlett, E. T., & Child, R. D. (1976). Efficiency of converting nutrients and cultural energy in various feeding and grazing systems. Journal of Range Management, 29(3), 186-191.Publisher
Society for Range ManagementJournal
Journal of Range ManagementDOI
10.2307/3897271Additional Links
https://rangelands.org/Abstract
Yearlong total confinement and partial confinement feeding were compared to conventional range grazing to determine the cultural and digestible energy expended to produce a kilocalorie of dressed-carcass meat from weaner calves and the protein consumed to produce a pound of red-meat protein. The range groups required the least amount of cultural energy to produce a kilocalorie of meat and the total confined groups required the most. The total confined system on a low level of nutrition, where calves were weaned early, converted digestible energy most efficiently but converted digestible protein least efficiently, whereas range groups converted digestible energy least efficiently and digestible protein most efficiently.Type
textArticle
Language
enISSN
0022-409Xae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.2307/3897271