The Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia (RBZ) is a publication dedicated to the broad field of Animal Science. We publish high-quality, original scientific research that spans across diverse areas within the discipline. The scope of RBZ encompasses a wide range of topics, including aquaculture, biometeorology and animal welfare, forage crops and grasslands, animal and forage plants breeding and genetics, animal reproduction, ruminant and non-ruminant nutrition, meat science and muscle biology, precision livestock, and animal production systems and agribusiness.
The Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia (RBZ) is a publication dedicated to the broad field of Animal Science. We publish high-quality, original scientific research that spans across diverse areas within the discipline. The scope of RBZ encompasses a wide range of topics, including aquaculture, biometeorology and animal welfare, forage crops and grasslands, animal and forage plants breeding and genetics, animal reproduction, ruminant and non-ruminant nutrition, meat science and muscle biology, precision livestock, and animal production systems and agribusiness.
The Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia (RBZ) is a publication dedicated to the broad field of Animal Science. We publish high-quality, original scientific research that spans across diverse areas within the discipline. The scope of RBZ encompasses a wide range of topics, including aquaculture, biometeorology and animal welfare, forage crops and grasslands, animal and forage plants breeding and genetics, animal reproduction, ruminant and non-ruminant nutrition, meat science and muscle biology, precision livestock, and animal production systems and agribusiness.
25/Nov/2024
ABSTRACT This study evaluated the effects of housing in the last month of gestation on hoof health in postpartum dairy heifers. The hooves of the heifers were evaluated during functional claw trimming and lameness scoring at 30 days before the expected calving date, and only heifers without any hoof lesions and lameness were included in the study. The heifers were kept in cubicle housing systems with mats (MAT, n = 12), mattresses (MATR, n = 12) and solid concrete floors, […]
Keywords: calving; cow comfort; dairy heifer; hoof hemorrhages
01/Apr/2009
Alcides Pilau, José Fernando Piva Lobato
DOI: 10.1590/S1516-35982009000400020
The objective of this work was to evaluate the feed systems for 70 primiparous beef heifers from the initial gestation period at the age of 13/15 months to the end of the second reproductive period as primiparous cows at 22/24 months of age. The experimental design was fully random with plots subdivided in time considering animals as replicates. The initial mean live weigh was 282 kg and the initial mean body condition was 3.2. The feeding systems were proposed to […]
Keywords: body condition; calving; dystocia; grazing systems; live weight