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Monensin and mineral supplementation economically increase yearling cattle weight gain on California annual rangeland

Stocker operators generally graze cattle on California annual rangelands from November to May. The profit margins of these operators is low as cattle sell for less per unit at the end of the season when compared with the beginning. This creates a need for methods to economically increase weight gain...

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Autores principales: Forero, Larry C, Davy, Josh S, McMurry, Bryan E, Oltjen, James W
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7200902/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32704841
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/tas/txz041
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description Stocker operators generally graze cattle on California annual rangelands from November to May. The profit margins of these operators is low as cattle sell for less per unit at the end of the season when compared with the beginning. This creates a need for methods to economically increase weight gain, which can help to mitigate market volatility. The use of monensin is common in much of the United States but has not been researched in the unique winter annual rangelands of California. Likewise, research that formally documents weight gain from the correction of selenium deficiency on these rangelands is also lacking. Trials were conducted over 2 years to determine weight gain differences with treatments of salt only (control), salt with monensin, mineral supplement, and mineral supplement with monensin. All three treatments increased weight gain by 12%, 9%, and 15% over feeding straight salt, respectively. It appears that selenium deficiency correction and supplemental monensin should be considered economical weight gain improvement tools for yearling cattle grazing California annual rangeland.
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spelling pubmed-72009022020-07-22 Monensin and mineral supplementation economically increase yearling cattle weight gain on California annual rangeland Forero, Larry C Davy, Josh S McMurry, Bryan E Oltjen, James W Transl Anim Sci Non Ruminant Nutrition Stocker operators generally graze cattle on California annual rangelands from November to May. The profit margins of these operators is low as cattle sell for less per unit at the end of the season when compared with the beginning. This creates a need for methods to economically increase weight gain, which can help to mitigate market volatility. The use of monensin is common in much of the United States but has not been researched in the unique winter annual rangelands of California. Likewise, research that formally documents weight gain from the correction of selenium deficiency on these rangelands is also lacking. Trials were conducted over 2 years to determine weight gain differences with treatments of salt only (control), salt with monensin, mineral supplement, and mineral supplement with monensin. All three treatments increased weight gain by 12%, 9%, and 15% over feeding straight salt, respectively. It appears that selenium deficiency correction and supplemental monensin should be considered economical weight gain improvement tools for yearling cattle grazing California annual rangeland. Oxford University Press 2019-05-17 /pmc/articles/PMC7200902/ /pubmed/32704841 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/tas/txz041 Text en © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Society of Animal Science. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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Monensin and mineral supplementation economically increase yearling cattle weight gain on California annual rangeland
title Monensin and mineral supplementation economically increase yearling cattle weight gain on California annual rangeland
title_full Monensin and mineral supplementation economically increase yearling cattle weight gain on California annual rangeland
title_fullStr Monensin and mineral supplementation economically increase yearling cattle weight gain on California annual rangeland
title_full_unstemmed Monensin and mineral supplementation economically increase yearling cattle weight gain on California annual rangeland
title_short Monensin and mineral supplementation economically increase yearling cattle weight gain on California annual rangeland
title_sort monensin and mineral supplementation economically increase yearling cattle weight gain on california annual rangeland
topic Non Ruminant Nutrition
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7200902/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32704841
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/tas/txz041
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