DIET NUTRIENTS DIGESTIBILITY AND BEEF PRODUCTIVITY OF RED STEPPE STEERS AND THEIR BREED CROSSES WITH BEEF CATTLE
The scientific-economic and physiological experiments have been conducted in the JSC «Assol-Tyulgan», Orenburg region. It is found that the young cattle, obtained from crossing of Black-Spotted cows with Kazakh White-Head, Simmental and Kalmyksky cattle breeds, possesses higher capacities to digestion and utilization of diet nutrients as well as to effective consumption of total and metabolic energy. This stimulates higher growth intensity, beef performance and enhancement of economic indices of beef production.