Dry matter, OM and CP digestibilities increased (P < 0.05) with increasing the concentrate portion of the diets.
The concentrate portion did not contain grains, but commercial starch was added to the control diet (CC) at 50%.
The concentrate portion of the diets contained barley, corn, wheat, or oats grain as the primary source of carbohydrate.
This study indicates that increasing the concentrate portion of fattening diets increases ADG, improves feed efficiency and carcass characteristics of growing Baladi kids.
The four diets contained 54.3% forage (alfalfa corn silages, 1 1 DM basis) with the wet corn milling product replacing 0, 50, 75, or 100% of the concentrate portion (corn and soybean meal) of the diet (DM basis).
The provision of grain concentrate and hay in either a choice or top-dressed situation resulted in young dairy heifers rapidly consuming the grain concentrate portion of their ration in very few, large meals before consuming the hay portion of their ration.
The traditional recommendation for urea feeding is less than 1% of the concentrate portion of the diet, approximately 135 g/cow daily [ 2]. Between 40 and 80% of the urea-N synthesized by the liver also return to the rumen and gut, where 35 to 55% of this N is used in microbial anabolism in both cattle and sheep [ 3].
Rolled corn, whole oats, or dehydrated alfalfa meal were used to make up the concentrate portions of the diets.
The northern area of the pool was emphasized in the cross sections as a quality control check because the majority of information is concentrated in that portion of the field.
Since the nodes at 24, 28, and 32 m span of the downstream truss bridge were found to be flexible, hence, the study was concentrated on this portion only.
