Fourty Aberdeen Angus steers were used to evaluate the effects of monensin, soybean oil and nitrogen source (soybean meal or urea) on feedlot performance of steers fed 90% concentrate diets. The monensin decreased dry matter intake of soybean meal supplemented diets and decreased the body weight at 56 and 112 days. The soybean oil decreased the average daily gain from days 57 to 112 and 1 to 112. While, monensin showed a decreased on the average daily gain in these […]

The objective of this experiment was to evaluate the effects of monensin on changes of fermentation pattern and resistance to intracellular potassium losses from ruminal bacteria of four cattle receiving high forage or high concentrate diets. The bacteria obtained by differential centrifugation were resuspended in a low potassium media. The intracellular potassium losses were measured after 10 minutes of incubation at increasing levels of monensin. The fermentation products were obtained after 24 hours of culture incubation with grass hay (100 […]

This research aimed to evaluate the monensin effect on protein degradation of soybean meal, wheat middlings and corn meal. The rumen fluid was taken from a fistulated steer fed a 40% concentrate diet. The incubations were done in an anaerobic environment at 39ºC. It was used 100 mg of each feedstuff, 14.7 mL of ruminal fluid and 0.3 mL of ethanol with or without dissolved monensin (5 µM was the final concentration). The soybean meal, compared with wheat middlings and […]

Three experiments were conducted to evaluate the performance and carcass yield of broilers, receiving or not monensin (MON), at different levels (100,110 and 120 ppm) according to the growth phase (GP) (1 to 21; 22 at 40 and 41 to 45/46 days of age). The Experiment 1 was performed at metabolic cages and the AME, dry matter digestibility (DDM.) and nitrogen retention (NR) were determined. The Experiments 2 and 3 were performed at floor pens. In the Experiment 3, feed:gain […]