Table 2.

Duration of time that different diets were fed to steers fed the control diet and steers receiving 0, 2, 4, 6, or 8 d of voluntary ractopamine removal before a common day of slaughter across treatments¹

Duration of ractopamine removal, d	Initial control diet duration, d	Ractopamine diet duration2, d	Control diet duration during removal, d	Total study duration, d
Control	42	0	0	42
0	10	32	0	42
2	8	32	2	42
4	6	32	4	42
6	4	32	6	42
8	2	32	8	42

¹Control cattle received the control diet without ractopamine for the entire 42-d study.

²The ractopamine diet contained 30.1 g of ractopamine/kg of dry matter.