The Intervet and Texas Tech University North American TBA Implant Database is a joint project between the Department of Animal Science and Food Technology at Texas Tech University and Hoechst-Roussel Vet. Although transparent to the user, the code required for the server to run the search and summarize functions of the database is massive. The objective of the database is to provide implant users with a convenient tool for examining the results of experiments conducted with the implants currently used by the feedlot industry.
Results returned by each search include typical animal performance and carcass information.
Because the use of implants in non-confined production systems is important, however, data from experiments with grazing cattle also were included in the database. Using the database is simple. Within each of the first two categories, the user must choose whether to search within data from steer or heifer experiments. In the Pasture Implant Studies, sex can be used as a search criterion. In the Search and Browse the Data mode, the system will return data from experiments in which any of the implants checked in the search form are present.