Post-weaning conditioning as a technique to increase growth performance of beef calves in the dry season.

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Weaning may cause negative effects on growth performance of the weaned calf, mainly if it coincided with the dry season when forage presents low nutritional value. The aim was to evaluate the effect of providing just weaned calves a short term nutritional conditioning on growth during the dry season.

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Weaning stress, Performance, Beef cattle, Pastures

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