This experiment was conducted to characterize and quantify the fractions that make up the carbohydrate and protein in silages. The design was completely randomized with four replications and five treatments: corn silage (AG 5011), sorghum-sudangrass silage, forage sorghum silage (BR 601) and sunflower silage (Rumbsol 91). Sunflower silage had the lowest value of total carbohydrates (TC) and B2 fraction (potentially degradable fraction of the fiber). Silages of corn, forage sorghum and sorghum-sudangrass showed no difference in cholesterol levels. Fraction C […]

The objective of this work was to evaluate nutrient production and extraction of different forages. Four crops were implanted: corn, Sudan sorghum, forage sorghum and sunflower in an experimental design in randomized blocks, with four treatments and five repetitions. Sunflower and Sudan sorghum had the highest green matter production, while corn and sorghum forages excelled over the other crops for dry matter production. The highest values of fibrous fraction were observed for Sudam sorghum. Sunflower crop extracted the highest amount […]

The objective of this trial was to investigate intake and apparent digestibility of nutrients on goats fed one of the following chopped grass hays: pearl millet (PMH), sudangrass (SH), elephantgrass (EH) or two cultivars of forage sorghum (FSH1 and FSH2). Twenty-five goats averaging 18 months of age and 19.5 kg of body weight were assigned to a completely randomized block design with five treatments and five replicates. DM intake (DMI), expressed as percentage of body weight (% BW), did not […]

The trial was conducted to evaluate the performance and morphologic changes of gastrointestinal tract and economic analysis for broilers fed sorghum-soybean meal-based diets, supplemented or not with multienzymatic complex (xilanase, amylase, protease), in the starting (experiment I) and finishing (experiment II) phases. The experiment was analyzed as a randomized block design with a 3 x 2 factorial arrangement [three sorghum levels (0, 50, and 100%) x enzyme level (0 and 100%)]. The experimental unit was a box with 17 birds […]

Two trials were carried out to evaluate the moisture sorghum silage (HMSS) with high or low tannin content as ingredient in broiler chicken diets. In the digestibility trial, ninety 20-d chicks were assigned to a completely randomized design with three treatments and six replications, and five chicks per experimental unit. Coefficients of metabolizable dry matter (MDM), metabolizable protein (MP), metabolizable starch (MS), metabolizable organic matter (MOM) and metabolizable energy (ME) of HMSS with high tannin, as-fed basis (66.22%DM), were as […]

Two experiments were conducted to evaluate the effects of microbial enzymes on weight gain, feed intake and feed: gain ratio. In the first trial, 288 chicks from 8-21 days old were assigned to a complete randomized design with a 2 x 2 fatorial arrangement: meal (soybean meal + sorghum and soybean meal + millet) and with or without multi-enzymatic complex (MC), with four replications of 18 bird per experimental unit. Diets were formulated to contain the same levels of metabolizable […]

Two experiments were carried out to study the digestibility of starch and the specific activity of amylase (ACAMY) and maltase (ACMAL) enzymes in two portions of small intestine (jejunum and ileum), in rabbits with initial ages of 28 and 49 days, fed with four sources of starch (corn, sorghum, triticale and cassava) processed or not by extrusion. Sixty-four White New Zealand rabbits were used in each experiment, distributed in a completely randomized design with eight treatments and eight replications. At […]

This trial was developed with aim of evaluating the productive parameters of a pasture of oat (Avena strigosa Schreb) and Italian Ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum Lam.) submitted to alternatives of utilization. The treatments were: 1 ‘Supplement’: pasture of oat + ryegrass + animals fed energy supplementt in a daily quantity of 1.0% of live weight (LW) with nitrogen (N) fertilization of 150 kg/ha; 2 ‘Nitrogen’: pasture of oat + ryegrass with N fertilization of 300 kg/ha; 3 ‘Pasture’: pasture of oat […]

The performance, during the summer of beef steers grazing elephantgrass (Pennisetum purpureum Schum.), alexandergrass (Brachiaria plantaginea (Link) Hitchc), sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) and millet (Pennisetum americanum (L.) Leeke) was evaluated. The grazing period for the elephantgrass occurred from 12/04/93 until 04/26/94, and for the other grasses occurred from 01/04/94 until 04/12/94. The total period of grazing was of 143 days for the elephantgrass and of 98 days for the other pastures. The continuous grazing system with variable stocking rate […]

Information about cultivars behavior obtained from only one local and year may not be enough for a cultivar recommendation due to the genotype x environment interaction occurrence. Then, cultivars indication based on stability and repeatability is more consistent because it enables previewing theirs performance under many environments. This work studied the adaptability and repeatability of dry matter production of seven sorghum cultivars to be used as silage. Data came from two sites (Coronel Pacheco and Lavras, Minas Gerais) and were […]