Implications
Limit-feeding corn silage-based diets to steers in a prescription intake feeding program resulted in compensatory growth and overall performance responses that were lower and more variable compared with steers limit-fed high-concentrate diets. Source of dietary energy had little effect on carcass characteristics.
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