Effect of stocker receiving diet on subsequent pasture gains

摘要

Seven diets were fed for 27 days to newly arrived heifers to evaluate theirimpact on stocker gains during the receiving and pasture periods. The diets wereas follows: soybean hulls plus soybean meal; suncured alfalfa plus wheat middlings;dehydrated alfalfa plus grain sorghum; distillers dried grain plus cottonseed hulls;brome hay plus 2 lb protein supplement/day; prairie hay plus 2 lb proteinsupplement/day; and a commercial receiving ration. During the receiving period,diets of soybean hulls plus soybean meal, distillers dried grain plus cottonseedhulls, and the commercial receiving ration produced the highest cattle gains. Thesoybean hull plus soybean meal diet and the commercial receiving ration resulted inthe best combined dry lot and pasture gains as well.