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Effects on performance and meat characteristics of a diet supplemented with fat during the finishing period of growing fattening bolls.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 November 2017

V. Hollo ,
C. Marche ,
I. Dufrasne ,
C. Van Eenaeme  and
L. Istasse
V. Hollo
Affiliation:
Dpt of Nutrition, Fac. Vet. Medicine, Sart Tilnan B43 - B4000 Liege, Belgium
C. Marche
Affiliation:
I.S.I. - 5200 Huy, Belgium
I. Dufrasne
Affiliation:
Dpt of Nutrition, Fac. Vet. Medicine, Sart Tilnan B43 - B4000 Liege, Belgium
C. Van Eenaeme
Affiliation:
Dpt of Nutrition, Fac. Vet. Medicine, Sart Tilnan B43 - B4000 Liege, Belgium
L. Istasse
Affiliation:
Dpt of Nutrition, Fac. Vet. Medicine, Sart Tilnan B43 - B4000 Liege, Belgium
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Fat supplementation is commonly used in feedstufs for high yielding cows or ewes. The diet for growing-fattening bulls in Belgium are usually high in concentrate. The fat content.of such diets .is low at .about 2.51. Over the recent years, feed manufacturers have incorporated fat in diets for growing-fattening animals (Clmquart, Istasse, Dufrasne, Mayombo, Van Eenaeme, Bienfait, 1991). In most of the reported works the fat supplemented diets were offered during the whole fattening period according to Brandt, Anderson and Elliot (1988) and Zinn (1989), differences in performance could be expected when the fat supplement is offered only during the finishing period. An experimental was designed to compare the effects of fat supplementation during the last part of the fattening period on the performance and meat characteristics of fattening bulls.

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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production (1972) , Volume 1993: Winter meeting , March 1993 , pp. 214
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Production 1993

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