Effect of food intake on protein and energy metabolism in finishing beef steers

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN: 1475-2662|57|3|457-465

ISSN: 0007-1145

Source: British Journal of Nutrition, Vol.57, Iss.3, 1987-05, pp. : 457-465

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Abstract

1. The effects of progressive reduction in food intake from 1.6 x maintenance (1.6 M) to approximately maintenance (M′) and then to zero (fasting) on energy expenditure and leucine kinetics were examined in Hereford x Friesian finishing beef steers.