The experiment was carried out to evaluate the influence of nutritional correction on the partial diet replacement or pure-food methodology to determine the energy values (apparent metabolizable energy – AME and nitrogen-correct apparent metabolizable energy – AMEn) and coefficient of metabolizability of nutrients of maize. The method of total excreta collection was used, with 120 female Cobb 500® broilers weighing 1,339±3 g and at 28 days of age distributed in a completely randomized design with five replicates and four birds […]

The objective of this study was to estimate the urinary creatinine excretion by the shrunk body weight (SBW). In experiment I, 32 Nellore bulls with initial body weight of 259±24.9 kg and 14±1 months-old were used. The group was divided in four animals to maintenance and twenty eight animals feeding ad libitum and separated in four groups; each group was slaughtered at different times of feedlot (42, 84, 126 and 168 days). The diet was composed of corn silage and […]

The objective of this study was to determine the chemical and energy composition of spirulina (Spirulina platensis), the nutrient metabolizability coefficients, and the values of apparent metabolizable energy (AME) and the apparent metabolizable energy corrected for nitrogen balance (AMEn) in broilers. A digestibility trial was carried out by using total excreta collection method, with 90 Cobb 500 lineage chicks, with initial weight of 256 ± 5 g at 11 days of age. Birds were allotted in metabolic cages for 10 […]

Four assays were carried out to determine the apparent metabolizable energy (AME) and nitrogen corrected apparent metabolizable energy (AMEn) of ten feedstuffs of vegetable origin for poultry at different ages. The chemical composition of the ten feedstuffs was also determined: 45% soybean meal, 48% soybean meal, extruded full-fat soybean, deactivated full-fat soybean, micronized full-fat soybean, deactivated soybean meal, soybean protein concentrate, corn gluten meal 21%, corn germ and broken rice. The method of total excreta collection was used and a […]

Two studies were carried out to evaluate indigestible neutral detergent fiber (iNDF) and indigestible acid detergent fiber (iADF) as internal markers obtained by 144-h incubation in situ and chromium oxide (Cr2O3), titanium dioxide (TiO2) and isolated, purified and enriched lignin (LIPE®) as external markers, and two total fecal collection schemes (3 or 5 days) to estimate digestibility in bovines. The experimental procedure was a randomized block design in a split plot arrangement. In the first trial, five crossbreed heifers fed […]

Two studies were carried out to evaluate individual dry matter intake of group-fed lactating dairy cows. In the first trial, eight cows were housed in individual pens and fed corn silage and 4 kg of concentrate meal. Two external markers (chromium oxide and titanium dioxide) were used to predict individual concentrate intake. Indigestible acid detergent fiber (iADF) was used to estimate individual silage intake. Fecal dry matter output (FDMO) was determined by total collection and also by LIPE®. Chromium oxide […]

This experiment was carried out to determine of the values of apparent metabolizable energy (AME) and nitrogen corrected apparent metabolizable energy (AMEn) and to determine of the chemical composition of some feeds. The traditional method of total excreta collection was used with male broilers chickens in the period from 21 to 30 days old and 41 to 50 days old. The birds were distributed to a completely randomized experimental design, with eleven diets, ten with tested feeds and one reference […]

Four castrated sheep averaging 38.5 kg of body weight were randomly assigned to a 4 x 4 Latin square to evaluate the apparent digestibility of nutrients and nitrogen balance (NB) on diets containing different levels of rumen degradable protein (RDP): 46, 50, 54, and 58% and ground corn. The four experimental diets were composed by 75% of forage (oat hay) and 25% of concentrate containing ground corn (GC), soybean meal (SM), cottonseed meal (CM), fish meal (FM), urea, and mineral […]

It was evaluated the values of apparent metabolizable and apparent corrected energy (AME and AMEn, respectively), the coefficients of metabolization of gross energy (MCEC and MCECn) and the digestibility of DM and OM (ADDMC and ADOMC) of some feedstuffs for greater rhea averaging seven months old, by the techniques of total feces collection and chromium oxide as external marker. The experiment was analyzed as a complete randomized design with six treatments and three replications per experiment. The experiment was carried […]

A digestibility assay were carried out to evaluate, in consecutives periods, the total excreta collection method and the chromium oxide method as a marker. Apparent metabolizable energy corrected by nitrogen retention (AMEn) and aparent digestibility of dry matter coefficient (ADDMC) of broiler diet based in a ground corn and soybean meal containing 19% crude protein and 3.100 kcal ME/kg. Sixty adult Leghorn cockerels weigh, in average, 2.350±105 g were used. Each cockerel participates in the evaluation of the two methods […]