This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of lead spheres placed in the uterus to simulate pregnancy and of growth promoter on carcass weight, carcass conformation, carcass and leg lengths, beef round and fat thickness, percentages of bone, muscle, and fat, and thawing and cooking losses. Twenty Murrah buffalo heifers averaging 20 months of age were randomly assigned to one of three treatments: control (non-pregnant heifers but with ovarian activity – NP), lead (100 lead spheres placed in the […]