Date of Award
5-2026
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Animal and Veterinary Sciences
Committee Chair/Advisor
Susan K Duckett
Committee Member
Matt Hersom
Committee Member
Matthew Burns
Committee Member
Brian Bolt
Abstract
Backgrounding of beef calves in the United States is a transitional sector of the beef industry where calves from the cow calf sector are prepared to enter subsequent production stages such as finishing/feedlot sector of beef production. Producers help backgrounding calves transition from a milk-forage diet to a forage and, or concentrate diet, learn to eat and drink from troughs, and gain efficiently to maintain profitability of this enterprise. These operations strive to capture cheap and efficient gains, predominantly through increasing muscle instead of fat. To aid in capturing these gains, management tools such as implantation and supplementation can be used to increase weight gain and efficiency. To evaluate these management tools, we investigated the effects that implantation with or without supplementation have on muscle accretion patterns in beef steers post-weaning.
Recommended Citation
Jacobs, Joshua L., "Evaluation of the Effects of Implantation and Precision Supplementation on Muscle Accretion Patterns of Backgrounded Beef Steers" (2026). All Dissertations. 4214.
https://open.clemson.edu/all_dissertations/4214