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Research Project: Strategies to Manage Feed Nutrients, Reduce Gas Emissions, and Promote Soil Health for Beef and Dairy Cattle Production Systems of the Southern Great Plains

Location: Livestock Nutrient Management Research

Title: Data set for: Effects of replacing steam-flaked corn with malted barley in feedlot rations on intake and in vivo and in vitro ruminal fermentation characteristics

Author
item BECK, MATTHEW - Texas A&M University
item Koziel, Jacek
item MIN, BYENG-RYEL - Tuskegee University
item SMITH, JASON - Texas A&M Agrilife
item GOUVEA, VINICIUS - Texas A&M Agrilife

Submitted to: Dataset
Publication Type: Database / Dataset
Publication Acceptance Date: 7/8/2025
Publication Date: 7/9/2025
Citation: Beck, M.R., Koziel, J.A., Min, B., Smith, J.K., Gouvea, V.N. 2025. Data set for: Effects of replacing steam-flaked corn with malted barley in feedlot rations on intake and in vivo and in vitro ruminal fermentation characteristics. Mendeley Data. V1. https://doi.org/10.17632/gh8xvxj7gb.1.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17632/gh8xvxj7gb.1

Interpretive Summary:

Technical Abstract: Description: The current dataset was collected for an experiment investigating the impacts of replacing steam-flaked corn with malted barley in feedlot ration on dry matter intake and in vivo and in vitro fermentation characteristics. Isoenergetic and iso nitrogenous rations were formulated to include either 0%, 10%, 20%, or 30% of diet dry matter as malted barley. The malted barley inclusion mainly displaced steam-flaked corn in the rations. The uploaded excel file has 5 sheets. The first titled "READ_ME" lists the remaining sheets names, their column names, and provides a detailed description of what each column represents. The "in vivo data" sheet contains ruminal pH, ammonia, D- and L-Lactate, and the volatile fatty acid profile collected from cannulated steers that were fed different treatment diets. The "DMI" sheet provides the average dry matter intake for each steer during each experimental period. The "in vitro data" sheet provides information collected from the in vitro gas production trial. Finally, the "gas production" sheet provides the in vitro gas production data collected from each fermentation vessel at 0.25-hour intervals.