Table 1.

Performance of the sick and healthy beef steers during the 35-d receiving period.

	Sick	Healthy	SEM	p-value
ADG, kg/d	1.44	1.64	0.06	0.01
DMI, kg/d	5.13	5.27	0.15	0.33
Feed:gain	3.57	3.13	0.09	0.01