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Influence of Frequent Feeding of Grain on Weight Gain in Dairy Heifers¹

Department of Animal Industry, University of Arkansas Fayetteville

ABSTRACT

The influence of frequent feeding on body weight gain and milk production response has attracted considerable interest in recent years. It has been reported that dairy heifers (3), beef calves (6), and sheep (2) show an increase in the rate of gain due to frequent feeding. It has also been reported that there was no advantage in feeding lambs more frequently than twice a day (4). When feed intakes were equalized, there was no increase in milk production due to frequent feeding (5). Some work has shown that when the rations were quantitatively restricted, frequent feeding induced faster gains for a period of only 30 to 38 days (1).

This report covers a series of seven feeding trials in which either Holstein or Jersey heifers were fed the concentrate portion of their ration two, four, or eight times a day, to determine if a weight gain response to frequent feeding would result.

¹ Published with the approval of the Director of the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station.