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. 2021 Mar 9;5(2):txab047. doi: 10.1093/tas/txab047

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.