Journal of Animal Science and Technology

Table 2 Feed intake and body weight gain in Hanwoo steers fed with different levels of forage in raising and 1 ^st fattening period

From: Effects of forage level and chromium-methionine chelate supplementation on performance, carcass characteristics and blood metabolites in Korean native (Hanwoo) steers

Items	Treatments	Sampling period
Items	Treatments	I	II	III	IV	V	VI ⁴⁾	Mean
ADG¹⁾ (kg/d)	LF	0.55^b	0.85^a	0.72^a	0.76^a	0.70^a	0.31^b	0.65^b
ADG¹⁾ (kg/d)	HF	0.83^a	0.83^a	0.74^a	0.74^a	0.73^a	0.59^a	0.74^a
DMI²⁾		5.56	3.56	4.56	5.60	6.46	5.09	5.14
	LF	2.69	2.74	2.24	1.79	1.79	1.16	2.06
	HF	2.47	2.74	3.21	4.33	6.27	6.32	4.22
		3.53	3.93	4.58	4.28	1.79	1.08	3.22
FCR³⁾	LF	15.0^a	7.4^a	9.4^a	9.72^b	11.8^a	20.2^a	11.0^a
FCR³⁾	HF	7.2^b	8.0^a	10.5^a	11.6^a	11.0^a	12.5^b	10.0^b

¹⁾Average daily gain.
²⁾Dry matter intake.
³⁾Feed conversion ratio.
⁴⁾I-VI: Number of measurement.
^a,bSignificant differences occurred at (P < 0.05).

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