The objective of this work was to evaluate the performance of beef calves, from birth to weaning, produced by Charolais (C), Nellore (N), CN and NC crossbred cows, kept on native pasture, supplemented with rice bran and weaned at 42 or 63 days postpartum, or non supplemented and weaned at 63 days. Cow age ranged from 3 to 12 years, being classified as: first calf, young, adult and old cows. Calves weaned at 63 days of age, whose cows were […]

To obtain the adequate slaughter weights and costs of production of young bulls, a feedlot study was conducted at Embrapa Pecuaria Sudeste, with 234 crossbred Blonde d´Aquitaine x Nellore (BN); Canchim x Nellore (CN); Limousin x Nellore (LN); Piedmontese x Nellore (PN); and straightbred Canchim (CA) and Nellore (NE) in 1994, 1995 and 1997. At the beggining of the experiment, the animals had 12 months of age and the BN, CA, CN, LN weighed 265 kg, the NE 214 kg […]

The trial was conducted from August 11th to November 15th, to evaluate the effects of energetic supplementation with ground sorghum grain on grazing beef steers performance. Thirty eight steers without definite breed, aging 12 to 15 months and weighing 159,97 kg were used. Animals were kept under set stocking on a natural pasture improved with Lotus subbiflorus and invaded with Eragrostis planna, Ness. Treatments consisted of control or without supplement (T0); 0.75% of mean live weight (T0.75) and 1.5% of […]

Fourteen dairy calves, four months of age were allocated in two treatments: control and supplemented with 0,4 ppm of Cr in the basal diet, which had 52% of grass hay and 48% of concentrate (corn meal and extruded soybeans) during 98 days. Feed intake was measured daily. In the last week were performed a glucose tolerance test. Performance were not affected by treatment (liveweight gain 1.330 and 1.320 kg/d; feed efficiency 0.24 and 0.25 and feed conversion, 4.13 and 4.07 […]

The intakes of dry matter (IDM), metabolizable energy (IME), ether extract (IEE), crude protein (ICP), neutral detergent fiber (INDF), acid detergent fiber (IADF) and organic matter (IOM) and the daily weight gain (WG), in kg/day, and feed conversion (FC) were determined to evaluate the effect of three dietary energy levels, for sheep. Eighteen Santa Inês sheep (averaging live weight of 20 kg six months old) were full fed diets with 2.42, 2.66 and 2.83 Mcal of metabolizable energy (ME)/kg of […]

It was utilized data from 188 animals from ten genetic groups. For the statistical analysis, the animals were grouped into three subgroups according to age, sex and diet. Thus, the subgroups analyzed were: 1) intacted yearling males receiving the “a” ration: 39 Nellore (N), 12 Brangus (BR), 8 1/2 Simmental – 1/2 Nellore (SN), 8 1/2 Caracu – 1/2 Nellore (CCN), 21 1/2 Valdostana – 1/2 Nellore (VAN); 2) intacted weaned males receiving the “b” diet: 12 N, 12 1/2 […]

The aim of this work was to evaluate the weight gain of growing and finishing steers, the life weight gain per hectare, and the forage quality in different grass production systems in the winter and summer. In the winter, the black oat pasture (BOP) and star grass (SGA) production systems were evaluated. In the summer, the millet (MIL), Mombaça (MOM), and star grass (SGA) production systems were evaluated and the effect of the production systems used in the winter on […]

Thirty-one Hampshire Down, Ile de France and Suffolk crossbred lambs divided into four treatments: intact, castrated with burdizzo, with rubber bands and with knife, were used in this experiment. Castration occurred at 58 days of age. After weaning, at 84 days, the animals were fed lot until 30 to 32 kg of live weight, and then slaughtered. There were no significant differences among treatments and genetic groups for birth, weaning and slaughter weights, for average daily gain from birth to […]

This research was carried out to evaluate the performance of dairy heifers fed with broiler litter (BL) and ruminal microbiota supplement (RMS). Twenty heifers, crossbred Holstein x zebu, with average weight and age of 276 kg and 13,8 months, respectively, were used. The animals were randomly allotted to a 2×2 factorial scheme: two levels of BL (15 and 30% in the diet dry matter) and RMS (0 and 10 g/heifer/day), in a completely randomized design, with five replications. The feed […]

The effect of four levels (0; 33; 66 and 100%) of substitution of sorghum grain (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench) by oats grain (Avena strigosa) in the concentrate of diets for feedlot finishing steers, was studied. Steers (19 months old and initial weight of 381 kg) were fed a diet containing 60% roughage and 40% concentrate, formulated for ADG of 1.2 kg/animal. During the adaptation period of seven days and in the first half of the experimental period (35 days) the […]