The objective of this experiment was to evaluate the effect of broiler strain and dietary lysine level on breast meat yield and quality. Two thousand two hundred and fifty day old straightrun chicks from commercial strains named A, B and C were reared in a factorial 3×3 arrangement (strain and dietary lysine level) with five replicates of 50 birds per pen. The broiler chikens were feed ad libitun with a corn and soybean diet withing the following lysine levels: 1.18, […]

An experiment was conducted using elephant grass (Pennisetum purpureum Schum.) cv. Cameroon, with the purpose of determining the quantitative and qualitative characteristics of effluent released, correlating this with levels of pressure and the quality of silage. The material with 13% of dry matter was ensiled in experimental plastic silos. The levels of pressure were: 356.67; 446.67; 531.33; 684.00 and 791.00 kg/m3. The effluent of silages with high moisture content was collected and measured during seven days. In silages with high […]

An experiment was conducted with objective to evaluate the effect of the simple and complex diets on the morpho-fisiologycal gastrointestinal of young pigs, on their pre nursery (7th to 21st day) and nursery phases (21st to 35nd of age). Ninety six crossbreed young pigs (male and females) were allotted to a randomized block design with four treatments, six replications and four young pigs for each experimental unit. It were used diets: two simple; a with 16 and the other with […]

One experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of five levels of coffee hulls (0, 8.7, 17.4, 26.1, and 34.8 kg/100 kg of fresh forage) on the bromatologic composition and IVDMD of elephantgrass silage. Fifteen plastic silos measuring .25 of diameter x .75 of height were used. In the ensiling process the forage received a pressure of 550 kg/m³. The results showed that the percentage of dry matter increased linearly with increasing of coffee hulls. It was estimated an increasing […]

A mixture sunflower and elephant grass has been used for ensiling. Elephant grass was harvested manually 70 days after a plot leveling a height of 10cm from soil surface. For silage making, the sunflower hybrids M-742 and M-92007 were utilized. The mixtures of sunflower and elephantgrass were done at the following ratios of green matter 100 and 0%; 75 and 25%; 50 and 50%; 25% and 75%;0 and 100%, of grass and sunflower, respectively. Plants were chopped mechanically in particles […]

Twenty one crossbred yearlings Holstein-Zebu heifers, with average initial age and weights of 14 months and 245 kg, respectively, were used in the performance evaluation. For evaluation of the ruminal parameters and sampling of the consumed pasture, five Limousin x Nelore steers, fistulated in the rumen and esophagus and maintained in an extra pasture of Brachiaria brizantha cv. Marandu, were used to evaluate ruminal parameters, pasture intake and to collect pasture samples. The experiment was carried out during three experimental […]

The objective of this research was to evaluate two levels of lipids (3 and 7%) in the diet of milking cows, and to evaluate in the 7% lipids two lipid sources (crushed soybean and soybean oil), on milk production and composition, ruminal parameters, ammonia production by mixed ruminal bacteria and dry matter intake. Six mature Holstein cows, purebred or crossbred, 500 kg of live weight, 30 days after calving and milk production of 20 l/day, were assigned to a two […]

Five rumen fistulated steers were used to study sugar cane degradation with several protein sources through in situ method. The treatments were sugar cane and urea; sugar cane and soybean meal; sugar cane, soybean meal and urea; sugar cane and corn gluten meal; sugar cane, corn gluten meal and urea; and at 3, 6, 12, 24, 48, 72, 96 and 120 hours of incubation. After the incubation period, ammonia concentration and pH were determined in the ruminal fluid, sampled at […]

The objective was to evaluate the effect of energetic supplementation on feed intake and ruminal fermentation of proteins in two protein levels in the diet (6 and 20%). There were used four rumen fistulated crossbred steers in a Latim square and the treatments were arranjed in a 2 ´ 2 factorial, in which the combinations were: A. only hay; B. hay + 2.8 kg of soybean meal; C. hay + 2.8 kg of corn meal; and D. hay + 2.8 kg of soybean meal + […]

The objectives of this research were to evaluate the effects of two forage levels and two experimental periods on the microbial efficiency, ruminal ammonia concentration, the ruminal pH, duodenal nitrogen (N) flux and digestibility. Four Holstein steers, two years old and 340 kg of body weight, ruminally and duodenally cannulated, were used. The experimental design was a 4 x 4 latin square and animals received four treatments as folowing: two levels of forage (70 and 30%) and two experimental periods […]