Abstract:In the hot-weather regions, during the hottest hours of day, cattle experienced major difficulties dissipating excessive heat load to the environment. The main source of heat production of cattle is rumen fermentation process. Changing common feeding schedule from day to night hours could help cattle easily dissipate the heat from digestive process to surrounding and impact on its performance. With the objective of comparing once-per-night vs. traditional twice-a-day feed-delivering schedule on feedlot perform… Show more
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.