Abbreviation is: ADG 5 average daily gain.
Values are predicted means from residual maximum likelihood (REML) analyses including effects of birth weight, pre-weaning nutrition, sex/year cohort, siregenotype
and their interactions, with feedlot entry weight as a covariate (linear and, where significant, quadratic) to predict means at equivalent feedlot entry
weight.
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Refer to Cafe et al. (2006b) and Greenwood et al. (2006) for details of pasture-based nutritional treatments and selection criteria for calves used to study
long-term consequences of growth early in life.
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Predicted from mean ADG during backgrounding.
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Predicted from mean ADG during background and mean feedlotting period.