The objective of this trial was to evaluate the effect of different dietary fat sources on weight gain, feed conversion, and feeding costs in feedlot water buffalo steers. Thirteen castrated Murrah steers averaging 297±9 kg of body weigh were assigned to one of the following three treatments: no added fat (control), soybean oil or whole soybean in a completely randomized design. The experiment lasted 84 days with three experimental periods of 28 days each. Samples of feeds, orts and feces […]

The objectives of this trial were to evaluate the effect of dietary oil supplementation on intake, apparent total tract digestibility of nutrients, and ruminal metabolism in lactating Saanen goats. Four ruminally cannulated multiparous goats averaging 54±1.02 kg BW and 80 days in milk were used. Goats were fed a control diet (no oil supplementation) or diets supplemented with one of the following oil sources: canola, rice or soybean. A 4 x 4 Latin square design was used and data were […]

Two assays were conducted to evaluate the effects of feeding increasing dietary levels (1.5, 3.0, 4.5, and 6%) of soybean oil (SO) or animal fat (pork lard – AF) on nutrient apparent digestibility and performance for growing rabbits. In the digestibility assay, 72 NZB rabbits were assigned to a completely randomized design with nine treatments and eight replicates. No treatment effect on the coefficients of digestibility of DM, OM, CP GE or the DM ingestion was observed, however it was […]

The objective of this experiment was to verify the effects of soybean oil and/or ethanolic extract of propolis, in the diets of dairy goats, on intake, on digestibility of nutrients, on milk production and composition and some ruminal parameters. Sixteen Alpine female goats were used, in which four animals fistulated in the rumen. The animals were allocated in four 4×4 Latin squares, in a 2×2 factorial arrangement of treatments. It was added to the concentrate 0 or 120 g of […]

Two experiments of metabolism using broilers were carried out to determine the value for apparent metabolizable energy (AME) of soybean oil, the dry matter metabolization coefficient (DMMC), and the nitrogen retention (NR) in the isocaloric rations on two differents ages: growing phase (22 30 days old) and final phase (42 50 days old) and four inclusion levels of soybean oil: 0; 3.3; 6.6 and 9.9%. The experiments lasted eight days, with three days of adaptation period and five days for […]

This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of 0.0, 3.3, 6.6, and 9.9% soybean oil inclusion in isoenergy diets on transit time (TT), performance, carcass characteristics and body composition of broilers from 21 to 56 days of age. The TT was determined at 22 and 42 days of age. Eight hundred and fourty broilers, with initial average weight of 870 g, allotted to a completely randomized design, with four treatments, six replications and 35 broilers per experimental unit, were […]

To evaluate the effects from two lipid sources (soybean oil and coconut oil) and of four energy levels (3350, 3450, 3550 and 3650 kcal/kg ration) on performance from 60 to 100 kg boars, eighty animals were used. The experimental design of randomized blocks with a factorial arrangement of 2 x 4 (sources x energy levels), with five replications of two animals per box, was used. Experimental diets formulated on the basis of maize, soybean meal and vitaminic and mineral supplement […]

The objective of this paper was to evaluate the performance of calves fed liquid diets based on integral milk or fermented colostrum, with or without addition of soybean oil, with or without zeranol application, as growth promoter. The calves development was evaluated from 15 to 60 days of age and the studied variables were: body weight (BW), withers height (WH) and heart girth circumference (HGC) at 60th day; solid feed intake (SFI); and weight gain (WG), withers increment (WI) and […]