Skip to main content

Table 1 Feed ingredients and nutrition levels for background period and different treatment groups during finishing

From: Effects of different dietary energy and protein levels and sex on growth performance, carcass characteristics and meat quality of F1 Angus × Chinese Xiangxi yellow cattle

Item

Background

Finishing

HE

LE

  

LP

HP

LP

HP

Ingredient, % DM

     

  Hybrid penisetum

20.00

  Rice straw

20.00

20.00

20.00

30.00

30.00

  Ground corn

29.90

66.54

61.03

41.23

36.83

  Soybean meal

19.18

10.46

15.97

3.70

7.86

  Cottonseed meal

7.45

4.32

7.56

  Wheat bran

18.00

15.00

  Limestone

0.67

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

  Sodium bicarbonate

1.00

  Salt

1.20

1.20

1.20

1.05

1.05

  Premix1

0.60

0.80

0.80

0.70

0.70

Nutrient level, % DM

     

  DM

74.19

86.31

86.45

86.69

86.85

  CP

16.52

11.96

14.34

11.90

14.30

  TDN

68.22

79.78

79.87

69.95

70.03

  NDF

34.27

21.60

21.81

33.09

33.24

  ADF

20.53

11.27

11.59

17.75

18.40

  Ca

0.42

0.39

0.40

0.41

0.42

  P

0.31

0.23

0.24

0.35

0.38

  1. 1Vitamin and mineral premix contained per kilogram DM: Vitamin A, 154,000 IU; Vitamin D, 38,500 IU; Vitamin E, 3,500 IU; Fe, 9.0 g; Zn, 7.0 g; Mn, 14.0 g; Cu, 1.0 g; I, 138.0 mg; Se 30.0 mg; Co, 60 mg; Monensin, 30 g/1,000 kg.