The objective of this experiment was to evaluate the yield and carcass characteristics of steers from the following four genetic group: Nellore (N), F1 Canchim x Nellore (CN), F1 Limousin x Nellore (LN) and F1 Aberdeen Angus x Nellore (NA). For this purpose, 32 steers, with age of 19 months and live weight average of 558 kg, raised in confinement and fed diet with and without protected fat for 166 days, were slaughtered. A completely randomized design, with four replicates, […]

The objetives of this research were to detect how many days were necessary to animals adapt to the diets, by measuring intake; to evaluate the effect of crescent levels of wheat middlings as a replacement for corn meal in the diets on the milk production and composition, the intake and apparent digestibilities of dry matter (DM), organic matter (OM), neutral detergent fiber (NDF), ether extract (EE), total carbohydrates (TC), crude protein (CP), intake of total digestible nutrient (TDN) and non […]

The objective of this work was to validate the prediction equations for neutral detergent fiber indigestible fraction (iNDF) employed by the Cornell Net Carbohydrate and Protein System (Sniffen equation) and the National Research Council (Conrad’s equation). A database with 114 observations taken from tropical grass, with lignin and indigestible neutral detergent fiber (iNDF) contents, was used. Comparison among predicted and observed values was accomplished by adjusting a linear regression model with predicted values as dependent variable and observed values as […]

The objective of this research was to evaluate total rations with differents levels of swine waste on the productive performance of sheep, in a feedlot system during 56 days, where seven days of adaptation and 49 days for data collect. Were utilized 32 Santa Inês hair sheep, aged seven months aproximately and with average body weight of 25.2±3.9 kg, distributed in four blocks as for body weight. A randomized complete block design, with four treatments (Swine waste levels: T1=0%, T2=4.2%, […]

Eight Jersey cows with an average live weight of 420 kg, yielding around 20 kg of 3.5% FCM in early lactation (around the peak of lactation) were used in a trial whose objectives were to evaluate rice bran as fat source associated with oil or tallow in iso-proteic, iso-fibrous and iso-lipidic diets on the apparent digestibility of nutrients. Four treatments were used: CON concentrate without fat addition; BPF- concentrate with “by pass” fat; RBO- concentrate with rice bran + rice […]

The intake, digestibility, ruminal pH and ammonia concentrations and passage rate were evaluated in steers fed corn silage (CS) and Tifton 85 bermudagrass hay (T85H)-based diets, at different forage proportions. Four rumen fistulated steers with 523 kg of live weight were used in a 4×4 latin square design, and fed diets containing 60:40 forage:concentrate proportions in dry matter basis. The forage portion consisted of: 100 T85H:0 CS; 67 T85H:33 CS; 33 T85H:67 CS and 0 T85H:100 CS. The dry matter […]

The experiment was conduced to evaluate the effects of corn replacement for forage cactus on the performance of crossbreed lactating cows and nutrient digestibility. Eight cows were assigned a two latin square design in a factorial 2 x 2 arrangement (two forage cactus cultivars, with or without corn).There was not interaction between forage cactus and corn and the effect of both were analyzed in an isolated way. The intake of dry matter, organic matter, acid detergent fiber, crude protein, ether […]

The experiment was performed to determine the supplements effects in the animal performance of forty crossbred Limousin-Nelore young bulls, aging 17 months and 367 kg average live weight, in Brachiaria decumbens postponed pasture, and during the dry season. The animals were distributed in five treatments: T1, control, the animals received only mineral complex; and the others were constituted by 1.49% of mineral complex, 1.99% of urea, and cracked corn, soybean meal and wheat bran in different percentages. The treatments had […]

Six castrated steers fistulated in the rumen and abomasum were randomly assigned to two 3 x3 Latin squares (three animals, three intake levels [1.5 supply, 2.0 and 2.5% LW] and three periods) to compare the collection techniques for abomasal and omasal digesta in order to determine the flow as well as to evaluate the effects of the three offer levels (1.5; 2.0 and 2.5% live weight) on both intakes and total and partial apparent digestibilities of DM, OM, CP, EE […]

Effects of feeding textured soy protein (TSP), in liquid form throught esophageal groove, or solid form throught concentrate meal, were studied in a 4 x 4 Latin-square change-over design, using four Holstein steers fitted with ruminal cannulas, averaging 100 kg live weight at the beginning of trial. Treatments consisted of increasing TSP levels in liquid form (0, 33, 66 and 100%) offered through nipple-pail, and decreasing levels in concentrate meal to keep the same amout of nitrogen in all diets. […]