RESULTS
Initial BW was similar among treatments (Table 2).Consistent with greater (P = 0.0001) amounts of total intake energy (diet plus infusate), empty BW (EBW; P ≤ 0.03) was greater, and final live BW was greater or tended to be greater, for steers fed the basal diet at the high MEI (P = 0.03) or infused with starch (P = 0.08) compared with those on the LI-H2O treatment. Site of SH infusion (R-SH vs. A-SH) did not affect dietary or total intake energy. Glucose infusion resulted in a slight decrease (P = 0.10) in feed intake energy compared with the A-SH treatment, but total intake energy did not differ between the 2 treatment groups.