The experiment was conducted with the objective to evaluate the parameters of dry matter intake, weight gain, feed conversion and energy efficiency of young feedlot steers, fed with two diets that included the AG-2006 sorghum silage harvested with different cutting heights: low cut (14 cm) and high cut (45 cm). Twelve Braford calves with an average age of seven months and average live weight of 208 kg, were used. The feedlot period was 126 days, divided in two period of […]

Twenty-one lambs were used, nine of the Bergamácia and 12 Santa Inês breed, were confined individually for 75 days, and fed diets containing 24% of swine wastes, in the form of biju (obtained by the scratching and sweeping of the floor of the growth and termination stalls) or DSW – dry sifted wastes (constituted by the solid part of the material contained of the water of wash of the stalls, obtained through sieves of fine mesh). There was no diet […]

This work was conducted with the objective to study the quantitative and qualitative traits of carcass and meat of two Hereford categories, two years old steers and cull cows with average age of eight years. Twelve animals of each categorie were randomly taken from the same herd, and feedlot finished during a 112 days period, being the roughage (sugar cane) : concentrate ratio of 69 : 31 during the first phase of 56 days and 57 : 43 during the […]

Similar to other living animals, the cells of the birds also synthesize small proteins (heat shock protein, Hsp), which increasing levels can be induce by stress. The Hsp have a relevant function in maintaining the integrity of the cell, and we question if they are involved in the mechanism of the cellular protection of target organs affected by ascites syndrome (AS). The objective of this study was to evaluate the body temperature, and the Hsp70 levels in the heart and […]

The objective of this work was to study the effect of recombinant bovine somatotropin (bST) utilization on milk production from Murrah buffaloes. Twenty eight multiparous Murrah buffaloes were used and divided into two homogeneous groups of 14 animals, receiving the following treatments: Group 1 ¾ Control (salt solution) and Group 2 ¾ 500 mg of bST/head every 14 days during 7 months. Buffaloes treated with bST presented increase of 48.52%, 32.80% and 32.80% on total milk yield, adjusted to 4% […]

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 […]

The experiment was conducted with the objective to evaluate the performance of feedlot finished calves, fed with silages of AG-5011 corn hybrid harvested with different cutting height: low cut (20 cm) and high cut (42 cm). Twelve Braford calves with an average age of seven months and average live weight of 209 kg, were used. The feedlot period was 126 days, divided in two periods of the 63 days. The roughage:concentrate ratio was 60:40 and 50:50 for the first and […]

The following leg components were evaluated: weight and length, total muscle weight, sum weight of the biceps femoris + semimembranosus + semitendinosus + quadriceps femoris + adductor muscles, total bone weight, femur weight, subcutaneous, intermuscular and total fat weights. The weights were also expressed as a percentage of leg weight. Femur length, femur circumference, muscle:bone ratio and muscularity index were also calculated. Twenty Ile de France x Ideal (F1) intact lambs were used. At the start of the experiment, average […]

Twenty-nine suckling Canchim calves averaged 107 kg of body weight and 55 days of age were fed with supplement during the wet season, in order to evaluate the performance provided by nutritional adjustments recommended by different systems of evaluation of diets. Supplements were composed of grounded corn grain, cottonseed meal and soybean meal, in agreement with the recommendations of the Metabolizable Protein System (MP); Cornell Net Carbohydrate and Protein System (CNCPS); and Intestine Digestible Protein System (PDI), for the highest […]

A total of 61,920 eggs from a single commercial line of broiler breeders was incubated. The effect of different incubation temperatures (T), measured by the wet bulb thermometer in degrees Celsius (ºC), was evaluated with eggs classified by weight (P) from broiler breeders with different ages (I). Evaluation of the percentages of total hatched, hatchability, egg weight loss and embryo mortality was performed. A completely randomized experimental design in a factorial 3 x 4 x 5, representing, respectively, three T […]