Show high salt beef diet shows average gains A fattening beef can eat as much as 17 pounds of salt a day and gain gam average daily gains efficiency of feed use and dressing percentage of carcasses were not affected by a high salt diet in university of call cah forma fornia experiments results with sheep were similar the tests were made to check ef facts of the growing california bract consumption by growing cattle ice of using salt to regulate concen and sheep on irrigated pasture col lege of agriculture animal scientists ran controlled experiments with salt making up 9 33 per cent of the steer s total diet their was indication that the high er levels of salt fed to both sheep and cattle decreased the carcasses I 1 grade but the dressing percentage for all groups of sheep and cattle t fed the high salt intakes equalled equal led that of the controls |