The objective of this study was to evaluate weight gain of beef steers grazing Brachiaria brizantha cv. Marandu and receiving one out of three different supplementation strategies during the rainy season of 2003 and the dry and rainy seasons of 2004. Twenty-four crossbreed steers averaging 230 kg of initial body weight were assigned to one of the following supplementation strategies: daily supplementation (DS), supplementation in alternated days (AD), or supplementation from Monday to Friday (MF) in a completely randomized design […]

This trial was carried out from November 2001 to November 2002, aiming at the evaluation of the effects of nitrogen fertilization upon the tiller demography and forage biomass in Brachiaria decumbens cv. Basilisk pastures fertilized with nitrogen and subjected to the same grazing height. The treatments consisted of four nitrogen rates (75, 150, 225 and 300 kg/ha.yr.) applied before the beginning of the experimental evaluations, which were performed during the Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring, 2002. A completely randomized block […]

This work aimed to evaluate the effects of forage allowances on canopy changes, the grazing time and forage intake by steers grazing tanzaniagrass (Panicum maximum Jacq.) pasture. The four levels of herbage allowance (HA) (kg of leaf blade /100 kg animal live weight/day, %) were: 6.1 ± 0.59; 11.1 ± 0.77; 18.0 ± 1.24 and 23.9 ± 1.15%. Eight Nelore animals averaging 229.0 and 249.5 kg grazed each paddock in the first and second sampling periods, respectively. A completely randomized […]

The net energy content for maintenance (NEm) and gain (NEg) of the napiergrass, under rotational grazing, as well as the changes on protein and fat concentrations in body and in weight gain of 36 ¾ Gyr-Holstein steers, grazing the forage, during the rainy season were determined. Half of steers had grazing time restricted to four hours daily, to limit energy intake to a level close to the maintenance level, and half had free access to the pasture. Six steers were […]

The trial was conducted to evaluate the effects of three levels of energy-protein supplementation with corn ground and soybean meal on grazing dairy heifers body development. Fifteen Jersey heifers, aged of 6 to 18 months and weighing 142,2 ± 7,8 kg, were used. Animals were kept under rotational grazing system and fixed stocking rate on a ryegrass and black oats pasture. Animals were classified by their initial body weight and randomly assigned to treatments according to a complete randomized block […]

This trial was carried out in Luiziana, northwest of Paraná, from November 2000 to February 2001. Twenty-four animals with 325 kg of initial body weight and 13 months of age, from two different genetic groups, ½ Red Angus ½ Nellore (20) and ½ Marchigiana ½ Nellore (12) were used. Animal performance was evaluated, under grazing conditions on coastcross (Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers) and four levels of soybean hulls: 0, 0.2, 0.4, and 0.6% of body weight. Pasture production and quality […]

This trial was carried out in Luiziana, Northwest of Paraná, from June to October 2000. Twenty-four animals with 223 kg of initial body weight and nine months old, from two different genetic groups, ½ Red Angus ½ Nellore (15) and ½ Marchigiana ½ Nellore (9), were used. Animal performance was evaluated, under grazing conditions of Coastcross (Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers) and three types of supplementation: grazing Oat + Ryegrass pasture (OR) for four hours/day; 1.2% of body weight (BW) supplement […]

A study was conducted in the Brazilian Cerrados to evaluate the performance of six tropical forage grasses (Brachiaria brizantha cv. Marandu, B. brizantha cv. MG-4, B. decumbens cv. Basilisk, Panicum maximum cv. Mombaça, Melinis minutiflora and Hyparrhenia rufa), associated or not with the tropical forage legume Stylosanthes guianensis cv. Mineirão, in a silvopastoral system with a clone of Eucalyptus sp. The forages were established in plots of 12 x 10 m, in the interrows of eucalypts, in a randomized block […]

The trial aimed to observe the ingestive behavior of grazing beef steers submitted to different energetic supplementation levels and kept under an improved natural pasture. Thirty eight beef steers without definite breed, aging 12 to 15 months and weighing 159,97 kg were used. Animals were kept under set stocking in a natural pasture improved with Lotus Subbiflorus and invaded with Eragrostis plana Ness. Two levels of ground sorghum grain were offered as an energetic supplement, and treatments consisted of control […]

Morphogenetic and structural variables were obtained from measurements performed on marked tillers and were quantified during August to October 1999 in a ryegrass pasture grazed by sheep under continuous stocking and variable stocking rate in order to maintain the sward at four different heights (5, 10, 15 and 20 cm). The experimental design was a randomized complete block with three replicates. Fifty marked tillers per experimental unit were assessed and distributed along transects lines. Sward measurements were performed in two […]