The effect of feeding systems on performance of beef heifers, on period of eight to 18/20 months of age. Charolais heifers and their crosses with Nellore were evaluated. The feeding systems were: ‘Oat + Annual ryegrass + Pearl millet’- Black oat (Avena strigosa Schreb) and Annual ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum Lam) and Pearl millet (Pennisetum americanum (L.) Leeke) pasture; ‘Oat + Annual ryegrass + natural pasture’- Black oat and annual ryegrass and natural pasture with Annoni grass (Eragrostis planna Nees); ‘Oat […]

Three blood constituents in eight crossbred Saanen goats bred in two systems ¾ pasture (S1) and semi-confinement (S2) ¾ were analyzed. The animals were fed two different diets: 30% of the dairy requirements of net energy supplied by concentrate during all the lactation (R1), and 60% of the requirements from 3rd to 13th week of lactation and 15% from 14th until the end of lactation (R2). Blood samples were taken to evaluate glucose (Gl), hemoglobin (Hb), and hematocrit (Ht) levels. […]

The experiment evaluated the reproductive performance of primiparous beef heifers at two years old (‘one year system’). These heifers data were collected at Agropecuaria Guatambu, Dom Pedrito, RS, of 395 beef calves from three genetic groups, Hereford (H); 3/4 Hereford -1/4 Nellore (1/4 N); 5/8 Hereford- 3/8 Nellore (3/8 N). The heifers were submitted to three alternatives autumn-winter feeding systems a) continuous grazing on cultivated annual ryegrass (L. multiflorum Lam) (PAST); b) continuous grazing on natural pasture plus energy and […]

This work, evaluated by means of an economically simulation, the beef production systems with heifers calving by first time at two (“one year” system), three (“two years” system) and four (“traditional” system) years old. In “one year” system, the female calves had three different nutritional systems during 100 days, after weaning in the first autumn/winter, constituted by one of the alternatives: a) continuous grazing on cultivated annual ryegrass – PAST; b) continuous grazing on natural pasture plus diet – CNR; […]

This study evaluated the zootechnic and productive indexes, the production costs and the profit of four type B milk production systems in the State of São Paulo, Brazil, that use intensive pasture grazing as the forage source for the cattle during the summer. The four selected systems were: EMBRAPA/CPPSE system and two private production systems of São Carlos region, and one system located in São João da Boa Vista city. The criterion for the private systems selection was to have […]