Two experiments were carried out to determine the nutritional requirement of total lysine for Hubbard and Ross broiler chickens of both sexes, from 1 to 21 and from 22 to 40 days of age. The evaluated traits were weight gain, feed intake, feed:gain, carcass yield, breast with bone yield, breast meat yield and fat pad. In each phase, a completely randomized block experimental design in a 2 x 2 x 6 factorial arrangement was used, with two sexes, two trade […]

The experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of energy supplementation on the performance of finishing cull cows under temporary grazing on triticale plus ryegrass. The energy supplement was ground sorghum in the levels of 0, .3, .6 and .9% of the live weight. Forty Charolais cull cows were divided in age classes and randomly distributed on the supplementation levels. No interaction was observed between age of the cow and supplementation level. The increase of supplementation level did not affect […]

The adequacy of the recommendation of phosphorus for growing Nellore steers was evaluated by means of the weight gain, feed intake and feed:gain ratio during 250 days. Fifteen steers were fed a basal P-deficient but otherwise adequate in the other nutrients, enabling gains of 500 g/day. The diet was supplemented (treatment 1 = 15 g P/day, treatment 2 = 11 g P/day) or not (treatment 3 = 5 g P/day) with monoammonium phosphate. Phosphorus deficiency did not affect organic matter […]

Records from 17,796 Angus x Nellore cattle out of 50 Associated Herds from the “Program Nature”, in the states of Goiás, Minas Gerais, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul, São Paulo and Tocantins were analyzed in order to estimate the effects of maternal and individual heterosis on the weight gain from birth to weaning. The used statistical model included the fixed effects of a general mean and contemporary groups, maternal and individual heterozygosity (covariables), random […]

Experiments were carried out to determine the digestibility (Experiment 1) and the effect of the inclusion of cassava leaf meal (CLM) with and without the addition of multi-enzyme complexes (MEC) in male broiler diets (Experiment 2) of the Hubbard strain. The MECs used were made up of Energex (b-glucanase, pectinase, hemicellulose) and Bio-Feed Alpha (b-glucanase, amylase). In Experiment 1, birds with 21 days of age were used, with the level of inclusion of 0 – 41.67% of CLM to determine […]

This work was conducted with the objective to determine the body composition for fat, protein and ash, the net requirements of energy and protein for weight gain, and the requirements of metabolizable protein of growing lambs. Twenty-two male lambs, sired by Texel males, from crossbreed Texel x Ideal dams were used. Four lambs were slaughtered at the beginning of the experiment (24 hours after birth) and groups of six lambs were slaughtered at weaning, at 28 and 33 kg of […]

ABSTRACT – The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of the substitution of corn by cassava bagasse in concentrate on apparent digestibility, digestible nutrient intakes, average daily gain (ADG) and feed:gain ratio (F:G) in growing cattle. Sixteen cossbred bulls, were allotted to a completely randomized block design and in two periods. Four types of concentrade were tested, in association with an ad libitum allowance of oat/ryegrass hay (Avena strigosa, L.; Lolium multiflorum, L.) and an average concentrate […]

ABSTRACT – The effect of the combination of energy sources (corn or cassava hull) and protein sources (cottonseed meal or yeast + meat and bone meal) in four diets, using corn silage as forage source, on the performance and intake of DM, CP, OM, ME, ADF, NDF, starch, Ca and P, using heifers. The effect of the addition salt or mineralized salt was also evaluated. A total of 28 heifers with average 303 kg LW and 18 months of age, […]

The objective of this work was to study the effect of the substitution of cottonseed meal by canola meal on weight gain, feed intake, feed:gain ratio and dressing percentage of the feedlot Nellore heifers. Thirty Nellore heifers averaging initial of 225 kg LW and 20 months of age were randomly allotted to two treatments (cottonseed meal – COM or canola meal – CAM as protein sources) with 15 animals for each treatment. The experiment was carried out in three periods […]

The body composition and the requirements for weight gain of energy and protein of cattle from four Zebu breeds (Gyr, Guzera, Mocho-Tabapuã and Nellore) were estimated with 63 bulls averaging 24 months of age and 366 kg LW initial. Fifteen animals, four from Gyr, Guzera and Mocho-Tabapuã breed and three from Nellore breed, were slaughtered at the beginning of the trial and the remaining were allotted to three groups, with three animals from each breed, which were individually full fed […]