Abstract:
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The experiment investigated the performance of yearling grazing steers and heifers supplemented once a week with whole oat and lupin grain (70:30) (approximately 3 kg/hd.day), or with hay fed to appetite either on the ground (Normal) or in a "Waste-not" Hayfeeder. Animals were supplemented for 112 days and animals in the Normal, "Waste-Not" and grain groups consumed about 350, 295 and 356 kg/hd and gained 38.4, 57.5 and 83.5 kg/hd respectively. The respective costs of gains were calculated to be 91, 51 an
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