The Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia (RBZ) is a publication dedicated to the broad field of Animal Science. We publish high-quality, original scientific research that spans across diverse areas within the discipline. The scope of RBZ encompasses a wide range of topics, including aquaculture, biometeorology and animal welfare, forage crops and grasslands, animal and forage plants breeding and genetics, animal reproduction, ruminant and non-ruminant nutrition, meat science and muscle biology, precision livestock, and animal production systems and agribusiness.
The Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia (RBZ) is a publication dedicated to the broad field of Animal Science. We publish high-quality, original scientific research that spans across diverse areas within the discipline. The scope of RBZ encompasses a wide range of topics, including aquaculture, biometeorology and animal welfare, forage crops and grasslands, animal and forage plants breeding and genetics, animal reproduction, ruminant and non-ruminant nutrition, meat science and muscle biology, precision livestock, and animal production systems and agribusiness.
The Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia (RBZ) is a publication dedicated to the broad field of Animal Science. We publish high-quality, original scientific research that spans across diverse areas within the discipline. The scope of RBZ encompasses a wide range of topics, including aquaculture, biometeorology and animal welfare, forage crops and grasslands, animal and forage plants breeding and genetics, animal reproduction, ruminant and non-ruminant nutrition, meat science and muscle biology, precision livestock, and animal production systems and agribusiness.
01/Jun/2006
Marcela Bicca Bragança Corrêa, Nelson José Laurino Dionello, Fernando Flores Cardoso
DOI: 10.1590/S1516-35982006000400010
The objective of this study was to evaluate the environmental effects of contemporary groups (CG), Julian birth date (JBD), age of dam at calving (AD) and age of calf at weaning (AC) on pre-weaning performance traits: birth weight (BW), weaning weight (WW) and 205 days adjusted weaning gain (WG) of Devon cattle raised in Rio Grande do Sul. A total of 23,369 records on animals, born from 1980 to 2000, collected by PROMEBO – beef cattle improvement program of Associação […]
Keywords: beef cattle; contemporary groups; julian birth date; pre-weaning weight gain; weights