Productive and reproductive performance of a buffalo herd, located at Paracuru, west cost of Ceará State, were evaluated. Animals were raised in feedlot conditions, with two daily milking. Data from 87 Murrah dams breed, collected from 1984 to 1998 were analysed. The statistical analysis was carried out by GLM procedure (SAS, 1990), fitting a mixed linear model. The observed means for total milk yield, lactation length, milk yield at peak, age at first calving and calving interval, were: 2130.80+535.60kg, 301.41+49.30days, […]

This work, evaluated by means of an economically simulation, the beef production systems with heifers calving by first time at two (“one year” system), three (“two years” system) and four (“traditional” system) years old. In “one year” system, the female calves had three different nutritional systems during 100 days, after weaning in the first autumn/winter, constituted by one of the alternatives: a) continuous grazing on cultivated annual ryegrass – PAST; b) continuous grazing on natural pasture plus diet – CNR; […]

The objetive of this study was to compare the first calving performance of Nellore and F1 crossbred cows. Data used in the study came from 741 calving of Nellore and F1 cows born from the matting of Nellore cows with sires of the breeds Aberdeen Angus, Brangus (black and red), Canchin, Nellore, Gelbvieh and Simental born from 1989 to 1993. The information about 566 calves born from 1991 to 1995, from the matting of these females with the Aberdeen Angus, […]