Growth of young cattle grazing high-moisture winter forages in a temperate environment was not affected by access to drinking water

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Banchero ◽  
J. Clariget ◽  
A. La Manna ◽  
L. J. Watt ◽  
J. T. B. Milton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Cattle Grazing ◽  
High Moisture ◽  
Young Cattle ◽  
Temperate Environment

Copper supplementation of drinking water for cattle grazing molybdenum-rich pastures

1982 ◽  
Vol 111 (10) ◽  
pp. 193-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Farmer ◽  
T. Adams ◽  
W. Humphries
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Cattle Grazing ◽  
Copper Supplementation

The intake and performance of cattle grazing irrigated pastures. 2. Effect of pasture length on growth of steers

1973 ◽  
Vol 13 (64) ◽  
pp. 477
Author(s):  
DW Hennessy
Keyword(s):  
Organic Matter ◽  
Growth Rates ◽  
Dry Matter ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Cattle Grazing ◽  
High Moisture ◽  
Moisture Contents ◽  
South Wales ◽  
And Performance

The organic matter intakes (OMI) and liveweight of twenty-four weaner steers grazing either short or long irrigated annual pastures were compared during May to November in 1964 and 1965 at Leeton, New South Wales. The OMI were estimated from determinations of faeces organic matter output using chromic oxide dilution, and of digestibility estimated from a faeces nitrogen-digestibility relationship for pen-fed cattle. Weaners that grazed the short or long pasture did not differ significantly in final liveweights (356 v.361 kg respectively, 1964; 357 v.361 kg, 1965) or OMI (4.99 v.5.42 kg day-1, 1964; 5.78 v.6.06 kg day-1, 1965) although available dry matter was less (P < 0.05) in short than in long pastures in both years. The OMI were commensurate with the 0.6 kg mean daily liveweight gains of weaners, which however were smaller than other reported growth rates, and an unsatisfactory production from the costly pastures. The reasons for the small liveweight gains are unknown but it is suggested that high moisture contents (85 per cent) of pastures restricted intake, or that high clover contents (58 per cent) caused bloating and rumen distension which thereby restricted intake.

6.12 The Use of Copper Tablets to Supplement the Drinking Water of Cattle Grazing ‘Teart’ Pastures

1983 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 142-142
Author(s):  
Phyllis E. Farmer
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Beef Cattle ◽  
Field Trial ◽  
Solubility Product ◽  
Cattle Grazing ◽  
Plastic Container ◽  
Metallic Salts

A field trial was carried out to test the efficacy of proprietary copper (Cu) tabletst in preventing hypocupraemia in beef cattle grazing molybdenum (Mo)-rich pastures. This product is based on a specially formulated matrix, which is claimed to control the solubility product of inorganic metallic salts when the tablets are suspended in a plastic container in water troughs.

Liveweight response to supplementation of pen-fed and grazing cattle eating barley stubble

1984 ◽  
Vol 24 (124) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
PJ May ◽  
DJ Barker
Keyword(s):  
Crop Residues ◽  
Cattle Grazing ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
Supplementary Feeding ◽  
Initial Weight ◽  
Mineral Supplement ◽  
Grazing Animal ◽  
Grazing Cattle ◽  
Moderate Energy ◽  
Young Cattle

Liveweight responses to two levels of supplementary feeding were compared in young cattle grazing barley stubble or fed baled material in pens. Over the 58 d of the experiment, unsupplemented animals in pens lost 0.5 kg/d, those receiving the low energy-mineral supplement maintained their initial weight, and those receiving a moderate energy-mineral supplement gained 0.3 kg/d. In contrast, cattle grazing stubble did not show any liveweight response to supplementation, all three treatments gaining at 0.6-0.7 kg/d. Grazing cattle were apparently capable of selecting a diet of much higher quality than the leaf and stem material on offer. The results emphasize the need for caution in extrapolating, to the grazing animal, results obtained in pen-feeding evaluation of heterogenous materials such as crop residues.

The response of weaner cattle grazing natural pastures in north western Australia to phosphoric acid, non protein nitrogen and sulphur in their drinking water.

1981 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 133
Author(s):  
A.McR. Holm ◽  
AL Payne ◽  
PD Morgan ◽  
EJ Speijers
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Phosphoric Acid ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Cattle Grazing ◽  
Dry Season ◽  
Research Station ◽  
Wet Season ◽  
Protein Nitrogen ◽  
Nitrogenous Compounds ◽  
North Western

The study was designed to evaluate the effects of phosphorus and non protein nitrogen supplementation on weaner cattle grazing natural pastures on the Fitzroy Pastoral Research Station, north Western Australia. The study was repeated over the period July 1971 to April 1976, with four drafts of weaners which grazed Mitchell grass pastures during the dry season and curly spinifex-ribbon grass pastures during the wet season. In each year, one of four groups received either no supplement (control), urea plus sulphuric acid, phosphoric acid, or urea plus ammonium sulphate plus phosphoric acid. The supplements were measured into and mixed with the drinking water. Weaners given phosphoric acid gained between 10.5 and 21.7 kg a head more than those not given phosphorus. The response was significant in two of the four dry seasons, three of the four wet seasons and for every ye= when both seasons were considered together. Urea supplements increased liveweight gain over the dry season and depressed liveweight gain over the wet season. There was no advantage to urea when the two seasons were combined. Cattle given supplements through the drinking water drank less water and more of those given nitrogenous compounds died than those not receiving supplements.

THE INFLUENCE OF TREADING ON PASTURE

1957 ◽  
pp. 82-89
Author(s):  
D. Edmond
Keyword(s):  
Perennial Ryegrass ◽  
Cattle Grazing ◽  
Agricultural Society ◽  
Vigorous Growth ◽  
Young Cattle ◽  
Complex Influence

In 1858 H. S. Thompson, writing in the "Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society", quoted an ancient Persian proverb, "The sheep has a foot of gold, and turns to gold whatever it touches", and wrote that, although at first he agreed with the proverb, he rapidly became dissatisfied with it. In his experience-sustained heavy stocking with sheep caused pastures to deteriorate. In my opinion his impression was that the sheep's "foot of gold" was a complex influence with benefits accruing from returned dung and urine and penalties imposed by untimely defoliation which necessarily entailed treading. He believed that it was important to use young cattle on establishing pastures "until the turf is close and strong enough to bear the treading of heavy cattle." In 1873 he reaffirmed his opinions with an amendment that carefully managed sheep should be the first on pastures intended for cattle grazing. His opinions, in the main, agree very well with modern ideas. A local opinion has been that for vigorous growth of perennial ryegrass, plants must be continually pushed into the soil, which must be compressed around them. Accordingly, hoof cultivation has been of wide popularity; it is not uncommon to be told that a good pasture should be "blackened" once a year.

scholarly journals Copper Supplementation of Young Cattle Grazing Improved Meadow Pastures in Southeastern Oregon

1982 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 515 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. B. Gomm ◽  
P. H. Weswig ◽  
R. J. Raleigh
Keyword(s):  
Cattle Grazing ◽  
Copper Supplementation ◽  
Young Cattle

scholarly journals Application of polyelectrolytes for improving the dewatering performance of drinking water treatment sludge using geotextiles

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Livia Luiza de Souza Avancini ◽  
Matheus Muller ◽  
Delma de Mattos Vidal
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Water Treatment ◽  
Drinking Water Treatment ◽  
High Moisture ◽  
Test Procedures ◽  
Polymeric Additives ◽  
Solids Retention ◽  
Sludge Cake ◽  
Solids Content ◽  
Geotextile Bag

The sludge generated at drinking water treatment plants (WTPs) is a high-moisture content residue, and therefore difficult to handle, transport, dispose of or recover. During the last decades, geotextile tubes have been successfully applied to reduce the residue volume, facilitate its handling and subsequent reuse. This study aimed to understand the factors that interfere in the filtration and dewatering efficiencies and to experimentally analyze the dewatering process of WTPs sludge, evaluating different test procedures and investigating the influence of the type and dosage of polymeric additives on dewatering performance. Geotextile cone dewatering tests and geotextile bag dewatering tests were performed, using four different woven geotextile samples and an aluminum sulfate WTP sludge sample. The results showed that the use of geotextile cone dewatering tests for geotextile selection and for additive selection and dosage was representative for the dewatering process intended, reflecting the results verified in the geotextile bag dewatering tests. Sludge chemical conditioning increased dewatering rate and solids retention during the tests’ early stages, but it did not result in a higher final solids content sludge cake. Keywords: dewatering systems, geosynthetics, waste management.

Preventive anthelmintic treatment of grazing young cattle via supplementary feed and drinking water

1987 ◽  
Vol 121 (20) ◽  
pp. 468-471 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Jorgensen ◽  
P. Nansen ◽  
N. Midtgaard ◽  
J. Monrad
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Anthelmintic Treatment ◽  
Young Cattle ◽  
Supplementary Feed

scholarly journals Blood Phosphorus Concentration as an Indicator of Phosphorus Deficiency in Growing Cattle

Proceedings ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 136
Author(s):  
Rob Dixon ◽  
Stephen Anderson ◽  
Lisa Kidd ◽  
Mary Fletcher
Keyword(s):  
Diet Quality ◽  
Rainy Season ◽  
Phosphorus Deficiency ◽  
Cattle Grazing ◽  
Phosphorus Concentration ◽  
Threshold Values ◽  
P Deficiency ◽  
Inorganic P ◽  
P Concentration ◽  
Young Cattle

Inadequate intakes of phosphorus (P) by cattle can cause P deficiency and severely reduce productivity. Blood inorganic P concentration (Pi) is often used as an indicator of P deficiency. Results from two experiments (E1 and E2) with young cattle grazing tropical P-deficient rainy season pastures without or with additional P, or fed in pens on higher energy pelleted diets ranging in P concentration (E3), were used to examine the relationships between Pi and liveweight (LW) gain. When Pi was >2.0 mmol/L average LW gains were 0.71, 0.85 and 1.04 kg/day in E1, E2 and E3, respectively. These differences between experiments were most likely associated with diet limitations other than P. LW gain was related curvilinearly in E1 and E2, and linearly in E3, with Pi. The Pi ranged from ca. 1.0 mmol/L through to 2.5–3.0 mmol/L in each experiment. The reductions in LW gains from the maximum at Pi > 2.0 mmol/L for several lower Pi concentrations were calculated from these relationships. At Pi = 1.0 mmol/L the LW gains were 36–60% of the maximum, at Pi = 1.5 mmol/L LW gains were 59–84% of the maximum, and at Pi = 2.0 mmol/L the LW gains were 82–98% of the maximum. The reductions in LW gain at each Pi were substantially greater for E3 than for E1 and E2. It is concluded that the Pi threshold indicative of P deficiency varies with the diet quality and that the threshold values are substantially higher with higher diet quality.

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