Animal Bytes

Take Home Message: On-farm digital image analysis can be used to accurately predict animal liveweight, fat class and conformation therefore improving selection for slaughter.
Live animal digital image analysis systems are feasible under common on-farm management conditions and can be used to predict some important slaughter characteristics.
“But further studies are required to extend the digital image [...]

Take Home Message:
- Feeding urea treated wheat to finishing steers compared to crimping or rolling will increase forage intake but reduce food conversion and carcass gain
- Increasing silage quality from approx. 10.7 to 11.7 MJ/kg DM can save approx. 3kg/head/day of feed wheat.
Treating grain with urea decreases beef carcass gain due to increased grain egestion [...]