The Comparisons of Fattening Performance of Crossbreed Bulls at Different Initial Body Weight
2019
Goncu, Serap | Bozkurt, Sibel | Sucak, Mustafa
The aim of this study was to comparison of fattening performance of crossbreed bullswhich different initial body weight. The research consisted of 129 imported 12-24 month oldmale crossbreed bulls that were fattened under the same conditions between January and July.Initial body weights of groups I, II, III and IV were respectively, 169.94, 208.00, 245.00, 312.21kg. Fattening period of all groups lasted 160 days and the end of the fattening live weights were determined as 405.69, 461.14, 511.6 and 568.79 kg, respectively for each group. Daily averagelive weight gains of the groups throughout the fattening study were 1.474, 1.583, 1.666 and 1.604kg, respectively. Differences between the groups were found to be statistically significant(P<0.05).
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