Inclusion of sunflower seed and wheat dried distillers’ grains with solubles in a red clover silage-based diet enhances steers performance, meat quality and fatty acid profiles

• Published in: Animal (Cambridge, England) England), 2014-12, Vol.8 (12), p.1999-2010
• Main Authors: Mapiye, C., Aalhus, J. L., Turner, T. D., Vahmani, P., Baron, V. S., McAllister, T. A., Block, H. C., Uttaro, B., Dugan, M. E. R.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Acids; Animal Feed - analysis; Animal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; Animals; Barley; Beef; Carbon; Cattle; Cattle - growth & development; Cattle - metabolism; Chain branching; Chains; Clover; DDGS; Dienes; Diet; Diet - veterinary; Dietary supplements; Fatty acids; Fatty Acids - analysis; Feeding; Grain; Helianthus - chemistry; Hordeum - chemistry; Isomers; Linoleic acid; Male; Meat; Meat - analysis; Meat - standards; Meat quality; Muscles; Product quality, human health and well-being; Red clover; Research Article; rumenic acid; Seeds - chemistry; Sensory evaluation; Silage; Silage - analysis; sunflower seed; Trifolium; Triticum; vaccenic acid; Weight; Wheat
• ISSN: 1751-7311; 1751-732X
• DOI: 10.1017/S1751731114001955

The current study compared beef production, quality and fatty acid (FA) profiles of yearling steers fed a control diet containing 70 : 30 red clover silage (RCS) : barley-based concentrate, a diet containing 11% sunflower seed (SS) substituted for barley, and diets containing SS with15% or 30% wheat dried distillers’ grain with solubles (DDGS). Additions of DDGS were balanced by reductions in RCS and SS to maintain crude fat levels in diets. A total of two pens of eight animals were fed per diet for an average period of 208 days. Relative to the control diet, feeding the SS diet increased (P