Administering the maternal appeasing substance before slaughter to improve carcass characteristics of finishing cattle
Shea J Mackey,
Reinaldo F Cooke,
Autumn T Pickett
Abstract:Two experiments evaluated carcass characteristics of finishing steers administered the maternal bovine appeasing substance (mBAS) prior to slaughter. In Exp. 1, 954 Angus-influenced finishing steers housed in 6 original pens were used. Each original pen was split into a pair of experimental pens 14.3 d ± 3 d prior to slaughter, in a manner that number of steers and average pen body weight (BW; 636 ± 4 kg) were similar. An oiler containing mBAS (Ferappease® Finish Cattle 5%; FERA Diagnostics and Biologicals; Co… Show more
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