2.1. Treatments and experimental design
Eight dietary treatments were offered to continental cross finishing beef steers in a four silage
×two concentrate feeding
level design experiment. The silage treatments consisted of grass silage as the sole forage (GS); grass silage offered with
maize silage (GS:MS), grass silage offered with lupins/triticale silage (sowing method 1) (GS:LT1) and grass silage offered with
lupins/triticale silage (sowing method 2) (GS:LT2). Grass silage was included in the ration at a ratio of 60:40 grass silage:maize silage (MS) or lupins/triticale silage on a DM basis. The silages were supplemented with 3 or 6 kg concentrates/head/d. The dietary treatments were imposed for an average of 107 d during the finishing period