Animal Science and Food Technology

The article presents the results of scientific research which was conducted during the period of growing calves up to age of 6 months old using dry beer pellets. It was found that the absolute increase in live weight of calves, in whose rations were 15 % of dry beer pellet from the total nutrition of the ration, was 3.1 % higher than in the control group and by 7.5 % more than in the 3 experimental group. At the age of 6 months, the height at the withers of repair heifers of the first control group was 96.1 cm, which is 0.83 % more than in the second test group and 0.21 % more than in the third test group. The greatest girth of the chest behind the repair scissors was in the animals of the 2nd test group and was 125.9 cm, which is 1.19 % higher than in the animals of the first control group and 1.03 % more than in the animals of the third test group. The oblique length of the trunk of the heifers of the third test group was 112.4 cm, which is 1.16 % greater than in the heifers of the first control group and 1.6 % larger than in the heifers of the second test group. 

feeding, repair heifers, rations, grain mix, dry beer pellet, increments, measurements