This experiment was conducted to estimate DM digestibility, fecal output, and DM intake of sheep fed a diet containing oat hay and concentrate. Treatments consisted of two methods of administration of the external marker alkane (C32): equilibrium and pulse dose. In the equilibrium treatment, animals received one daily pellet of cellulose containing 100 mg of C32 during eight days (four days for reach steady state conditions and five days for sample collection). Animals in the pulse dose treatment received only […]

It was assessed the nutritive value of hand plucked forage samples collected along the grazing period and the animal performance on Mombaçagrass pasture under intermittent stocking with three rest periods (RP). The RPs were defined by the time required for the expansion of 2.5, 3.5, and 4.5 new leaves per tiller, after six days grazing period. The experimental area was divided into five paddocks for the 2.5 new leaves RP and six paddocks for the 3.5 and 4.5 new leaves […]

The milk production, the dry matter intake (DMI) and the NDF passage rate in the gastrointestinal tract in four seasons (July, October, January and March), of crossbred cows, under grazing of elephant grass, submitted to two levels of nitrogen (300 and 700 kg N/ha•year) were estimated. The rotation grazing with three days of occupation and 30 days of resting, using 36 crossbred Holstein Zebu milking cows, in a stocking rate of 6 cows/ha, was used. The estimates of the intake […]