The work was carried out at the Equine Production Sector of the Department of Animal Science of the Federal University of Lavras – UFLA, in Lavras – MG, Brazil, with the objective of evaluating the effect of pectin and soybean meal addition on the apparent digestibility of nutrients in horses. The experimental design was completely randomized in a 4×2 factorial arrangement, with four pectin levels (0, 1, 2 and 3% of the DM of the hay of coastcross consumed) and […]

The objective of this work was to evaluate the effects of sex, sub-region, age at registration and year of registration, on 15 linear measures (withers height, back height, croup height, midback height, head length, neck length, back-loins length, croup length, shoulder bone length, body length, head width, chest width, hip width, thorax perimeter and shin bone perimeter) of the Pantaneiro horse. Data from 1214 animals were used, registered in the Brazilian Pantaneiro Horse Association, from 1972 to 1991, and analyzed […]

Four metabolism assays were carried out to btain information on the nutrient digestibility of horses feeding. Geldings without definite breed, with average of six years of age, were used. In the experiments were tested: (1) sugar cane; (2) a combination of 59.0% of sugar cane and 41.0% of whole corn grain; (3) elephant grass; (4) and sugar cane with 1.5% of urea. The average DM intake was .89, 1.11, 2.02 and 1.03% LW for sugar cane, sugar cane plus whole […]