The effects of weaning age (90 days or 156 days) of female beef calves were evaluated on their subsequent performance from the beginning of the first pregnancy and the end of the second breeding season, at 22/24 months of age. During pregnancy, heifers were managed as a single group on Brachiaria brizantha cv. Marandu pasture; after calving, on bristle oats (Avena strigosa Schreb) and ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum Lam.); and on Brachiaria humidicula pasture during the second reproductive period. The characteristics […]

Aiming to evaluate the spray-dried plasma levels (BP) in diets for piglets weaned at 28 days of age, an experiment with 128 piglets with initial body weight of 7.635 ± 0.103 kg was conducted and allocated in a experimental block design composed of four treatments, eight replicates and four animals per replicate. The treatments used were: diets with dried milk (DM) and without spray-dried plasma (BP) from 29 to 42 days of age; diets with DM and 2.8% of BP […]

The objective of this experiment was to evaluate the food intake, food conversion and weight gain of Braford calves, weaned with 88 days of age, fed with triticale silage associated to 35, 45, 55 or 65% concentrate, dry matter basis. The animals were fed ad libitum, twice daily with the 15% CP diet. The experiment was conducted during 84 days, divided in four periods of 21 days. Average daily intakes of dry matter (DMI) expressed in kg (DMID), per 100 […]

The effects on the performance of calves submitted to: a) three treatments, consisted of post-partum stocking rates (CA) of 240 kg of live weight (LW)/ha (treatment 1, T1), of 320 kg of LW/ha (T2), both on natural pastures, and of 400 kg of LW/ha on improved pasture of Italian ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum L.) during the first 80 days post-partum, and after on natural pasture at the same stocking rate as T2 afterwards (T3); b) two weaning ages, consisted of weaning […]

The experiment run at the Agronomic Experimental Station of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, located in the district of Eldorado do Sul, Brazil, to evaluate the performance of 40 crossbred Bos indicus x Bos taurus calves until two years old, early weaned (EW) with average age of 91 days and minimum liveweight of 70 kg, or weaned at conventional age (CW), averaging 170 days old and liveweight of 131.2 kg, supplemented (Su) or not (NSu) with energy-protein […]

The investigation was carried out to evaluate the effects of two stocking rates (CA280= 280 kg LW/ha and CA=360= 360 kg LW/ha) and two weaning ages of calves (DC = Conventional weaning at seven months of age and DP= Early weaning at three/four months of age) on reproductive performance of primiparous beef cows of two breed compositions (½ Nelore ½ Hereford and ¼ Nelore ¾ Hereford). Average daily weight gain (GMD) from calving to DC, during the mating period, and […]

Live weight at the beginning of the finishing period (IFW), average daily gain (ADG), slaughter weight (SW), cold carcass weight (CCW), carcass dressing percentage (DP), subcutaneous fat thickness (SFT) and slaughter age in days (SA) of 32 castrated males Braford, previously weaned at 100 (EW) or 180 days (CW) and slaughtered at 13-14 months old, were evaluated. From CW (03/06/01) until the beginning of finishing period (08/09/01), when passed to an improved pasture of ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum L.), the calves […]

The experiment was run at the Agronomic Experimental Station of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, located in the district of Eldorado do Sul, Brazil. The objective of the study was to evaluate the effect of the date of early (01/05/99) or conventional (03/26/99) weaning on the reproductive performance of multiparous beef cows during two mating seasons, 98/99, and the subsequent, 99/00. Fifty cows had their calves weaned with an average age of 91 days old and a […]