The objective of this trial was to study intake, apparent total tract digestibility, and production of Nellore steers fed diets containing the following ratios of Brachiaria brizantha and sorghum silages: 100:0, 67:33, 33:67, and 0:100 on dry matter (DM) basis. Twenty-four castrated steers averaging 380 kg at the beginning of the trial and receiving a forage:concentrate ratio of 60:40 (DM basis) were used in a randomized complete block design (six replicates per treatment). The experiment lasted 78 days with three […]

This experiment was carried out to assess the fecal recuperation of the following internal markers: acid insoluble ash (AIA), acid detergent insoluble ash (ADIA), indigestible acid detergent fiber (IADF), indigestible neutral detergent fiber (INDF), and the apparent digestibility of dry matter (DM) and organic matter (OM). Four castrated sheep were used, fed with four levels of substitution of corn by cassava by-product meal. The feed samples, orts and feces were incubated in situ for 192 hours in three Holstein cows […]

The goal of this study was to evaluate the intake of nutrients and the total and partial apparent digestibility of sugar cane + citrus pulp (ScSCp), cassava hulls + citrus pulp (ChSCp) and cassava root + citrus pulp (CrSCp) silages. The basal diet with corn silage (CS) and soybean meal composed 60% of the total dry matter of ChSCp and CrSCp treatments. Four castrated crossbred (HxZ) steers were, canulated in the rumen and in the duodenum and confined according to […]

It was aimed to evaluate intake, apparent digestibility and in situ degradability of dry matter (DM), crude protein (CP) and neutral detergent fiber (NDF) of coastcross and Tifton 85′ bermudagrass hays, and of diets with four concentrate levels for growing animals. The fecal production was estimated by means of internal markers, indigestible neutral detergent fiber (NDFi) and acid detergent fiber (ADFi), obtained after 144 hours of ruminal incubation. It were used eight months old bovines and 32 non castrated animals […]