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Eliminating Excess Fat in Meat Animals
Eliminating Excess Fat in Meat Animals
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Grain is scarce and high priced, and grain exports are being used to fight world hunger and to help the United States with balance-of-trade problems. Thus, wasting grain in feeding and overfinishing cattle and swine should be discontinued.
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Moreover, the separable lean tissue deposited in the gain during the last period was only 39.5~o of the amount deposited during the first period. All this information indicates that it is important to know when the optimal slaughter weight occurs with cattle of different breeding.
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S WI N E In the United States the average pig requires 3.3-3.5 lb of feed per pound of gain from weaning to market weight. But in 1971 a top performing pig in a U.S.
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Because of inadequate capacity for the lungs, heart, and digestive tract, some of these animals experience difficulty in the latter part of the growth period and during reproduction. Therefore, as breeding programs are developed for producing meat-type pigs, attention must be given to ensuring that the animals can function properly throughout growth and during reproduction.
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