This investigation was carried out to determine body composition of protein, fat, and energy as well as nutritional requirements of protein and energy for maintenance and weight gain of Morada Nova Lambs. Thirty lambs averaging 15 kg of initial body weight (BW) were used in this trial. To determine the body composition using the comparative slaughter approach six lambs were slaughtered at 15 kg (reference animals), six at 20 kg (intermediary slaughter), and the remaining were distributed in one of […]

The study was conducted to evaluate the biological flow of P in pigs fed diets based on corn, soybean meal, defatted rice bran (DRB) and soybean oil, with increasing phytase levels (253, 759, 1265 and 1748 PU/kg of diet), using mathematics models. The model was deterministic and compartimental, in which the gastrintestinal tract (GIT) (C1), the plasma C2, the bones (C3) and the soft tissues (liver, heart, kidney and muscle) (C4) represented the compartments. Metabolism data and kinetics of P […]

The experiment was carried out with the objective of evaluating the ileal endogenous losses of amino acids in function of different fiber levels inclusion in a free protein diet. Were used eight crossbreed swine, castrated males, averaging 50.17 ± 4.10 kg initial weight, submitted previously to the simple T canula surgery implantation, allotted to a randomized blocks design, with four treatments, four replicates and one animal per experimental unit. The treatments consisted in a free protein diet with four levels […]

The experiment was designed to simulate the mathematical models that relate to the phophorus (P) flow, considering the hypotheses that the endogenous phosphorus from digestive tract was absorbed in the same proportion of the dietary phosphorus and that the input and output flow of this mineral in the compartments was constant. The variables absorption, retention, endogenous P that returns to the gastrointestinal tract (GIT), dietary absorbed P, accretion, reabsorption and balance of P in bone and in soft tissues and […]