Browsing by Department "Animal Sciences"
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Maintaining Meat Quality through the Beef Supply Chain
(2024-04-25)
The studies presented here were designed to evaluate the impacts of increased time periods during two key phases of the beef supply chain: pre-harvest transportation and post-processing storage. In the first study, the ...
The Mangalica Pig is a Novel Biomedical Model for Human Obesity and its Metabolic Complications
(2015-05-29)
The Mangalica pig is a genetic model of excessive adiposity; therefore, this
European heritage breed may serve as an applied model to improve pork quality in
modern commercial lean breeds and as a biomedical model to ...
Marinating effects on the sensory characteristics of grain- and forage-finished beef
(2010-05-11)
Beef inside round roasts (n = 144) were cut from rounds obtained from both forage-finished cattle (n = 72) and grain-finished cattle (n = 72). Roasts were portioned to weigh approximately 0.45-0.68 kg. Each roast was ...
Meat Quality Assessment of Pork Fed Poultry Fat, Flaxseed Oil, and Supplemented with Vitamin E
(2017-04-25)
The objective of this research is to understand carcass and meat quality characteristics of pigs fed a combination of poultry fat, flaxseed oil, and supplemented with vitamin E. It is hypothesized that certain combinations ...
Memory Recall in Horses Tranquilized with Acepromazine Maleate
(2014-05-02)
Acepromazine maleate (Ace) is a common tranquilizer employed by horse handlers as a “training aid” because it allows handlers more control of fractious horses in training situations. Tranquilizing horses with Ace is ...
Minding the Gap: An Examination of Susceptibility to Misinformation About Beef Among Generation Z and Millennials
(2023-05-02)
Every minute, 500 hours of video content is uploaded to YouTube (Ceci, 2023). The constant flood of new content creates an environment that fosters misinformation, specifically about animal agriculture and the beef ...
Molecular signatures and cellular differences in granulosa cells from fertile and subfertile beef heifers
(2023-06-23)
Subfertility is a leading contributor to economic losses in the cow-calf sector of the beef cattle industry. Cow-calf producers invest significant time and financial resources in the selection and development of replacement ...
Neonatal Exposure to Estrogen and Estrogen Receptor Agonists and Antagonists: Effects on the Adult Endometrial Proteome and Morphoregulatory Gene Expression in the Neonatal Uterus
(2010-01-06)
Development of the porcine uterus begins prenatally but is completed postnatally. In mammals, the uterus provides an embryotrophic environment for conceptus development and integrates maternal and conceptus signals needed ...
Nutritive quality of Coastal bermudagrass treated with plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria
(2017-04-15)
Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) are naturally occurring, non-pathogenic soil bacteria that aggressively colonize plant roots. These beneficial bacteria increase nutrient uptake, pest resistance, drought tolerance, ...
Overseeding Eastern gamagrass with cool-season grasses or grass-legume mixtures
(2017-07-07)
The first year and a half of a 2-yr study was conducted at Black Belt Research and Extension Center in Marion Junction, AL to evaluate the effects of overseeding early- vs. late-maturing cool-season forages on forage ...
Pannexin 1 Expression in Bovine Cumulus-Oocyte Complexes and Function During in vitro Maturation
(2019-07-03)
In this study we investigate the presence of pannexin 1 (PANX1) protein channels in bovine cumulus-oocyte complexes (COCs). Pannexin channels are a recently discovered family of proteins which have been characterized in ...
Peracetic Acid Effects on Shelf Life and Survival of Escherichia coli on Beef Steaks
(2016-04-05)
A study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of peracetic acid (PAA) against Escherichia coli O157:H7 in beef. In this study, 150 slices of beef ball tips (IMPS: 185B) weighing 100g each were inoculated with either ...
Performance of Forage-Finished Beef Cattle Grazing Ryegrass, Rye or Oats, and Forage Quality Measured by a High-Throughput Procedure
(2009-08-05)
A 3-yr grazing trial was conducted with ryegrass (Lolium perenne), rye (Secale cereale) and oats (Avena sativa) as winter pasture for forage-finished beef. Replicate 1.42-ha paddocks were established and stocked with 3 ...
Phenotypic and Genetic Aspects of Fertility in Beef Heifers
(2019-07-17)
Reproductive success of a heifer’s first breeding season is highly critical to the sustainability of beef cattle production systems. Therefore, multiple management practices exist to ensure heifers are properly developed ...
Physiological and Molecular Responses of Feeding Ractopamine toYearling Heifers Across Days on Feed
(2010-05-05)
Heifers comprise 30% of the annual beef harvest in the United States. Production pressures over the past several years have lead to a need to increase production efficiency. One mode currently available is the use of the ...
Post-weaning, Feedyard, and Carcass Performance of Alabama Feeder Cattle: The Current State of Alabama Cattle and the Effect of Backgrounding Diet
(2022-06-01)
Understanding the effect of post-weaning management strategies on feedyard performance, health, and carcass characteristics of Southeastern beef calves can help cattle producers add value to their operations. However, due ...
Pre-conditioning beef calves with high moisture forages and co-product feeds
(2017-04-17)
A 45-d backgrounding study was conducted at the E.V. Smith Research Center in Shorter, AL to determine animal performance differences of pre-conditioned beef calves fed annual ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum) baleage, ...
Preconditioning for long-duration transportation stress on beef cattle with rumen-protected methionine supplementation: a nutrigenetics study
(2019-11-22)
Different participants generally located distantly among them compose the U.S. beef production chain; therefore, shipping is required for cattle at least once in their lifespan. The aim of this study was to determine the ...
Prediction of Sensory Texture Characteristics of Deli Meat Using Instrumental Analysis
(2016-05-05)
The objective of Experiment 1 was to develop a method that has the ability to measure multiple readings on the same deli meat sample and have those readings be highly correlated with descriptive sensory data. Texture profile ...
Productivity and Nutritive Quality of Johnsongrass as Influenced by Interseeded Ladino Clover and Fertilization with Commercial Fertilizer or Broiler Litter
(2009-05-12)
Johnsongrass (Sorghum halepense) is a warm-season perennial forage grown throughout the southeastern US. It was a very popular forage for cattle grazing during the early 20th Century; however, it currently is not utilized ...