The objective of this work was to evaluate the effects of the forage to concentrate ratio on the weight gain and feed: gain, and to determine the apparent digestibility of the nutrients of 25 and 20 crossbred steers averaging 310 kg LW, respectively. Five full fed diets based on tanzaniagrass hay and concentrate, with different forage to concentrate ratio (85:15, 70:30, 55:45; 40:60; and 25:75) were used. The regression analysis of the coefficienties of apparent digestible dry matter, digestible organic […]

Intake and apparent digestibilities of dry matter (DM), crude protein (CP), ether extract (EE), total carbohydrates (TC) and neutral detergent fiber (NDF), average daily weight gain and feed: gain of diets containing Tifton 85 bermudagrass hays with 35, 42 and 56 days of regrowth were evaluated with Nellore steers. Eighteen animals averaging 345 kg were allotted in a randomized complete blocks design with six replicates. All diets contained 60% forage and 40% of a concentrate mix based on ground corn […]

This work was carried out to evaluate the effect of cottonseed meal, urea or starea supplementation to corn silage and ground corn based diets by In vitro disappearance of dry matter, nitrogen and acid detergent fiber method. The treatment with urea presented better results than the other treatments in all studied characteristics, and the treatments with cottonseed meal or starea presented similar results. The observed In vitro disappearance values were: 70.5, 69.8 and 72.7% for dry matter, 61.6, 63.1 and […]

The objective of the research was to develop equations to predict the chemical body composition of F1 Simmental x Nellore, based on the chemical composition of rib joints. Twenty-nine F1 Simmental x Nellore bulls, averaging 17 months of age and initial live weight of 354 kg, were used. Five animals were slaughtered at the beginning of the experiment and the others were randomly allotted to the treatments designed according to the concentrate levels in the diet (25, 37.5, 50, 62.5, […]

The objective of this work was to evaluate the effects of the forage to concentrate ratio in the nutrient intake by 25 crossbred steers with initial 310 kg LW. Five full fed diets based on tanzaniagrass hay and concentrate, with different forage to concentrate ratio (85:15, 70:30, 55:45; 40:60; and 25:75) were used. A quadratic effect was observed for the concentrate level in the diet on the intake of dry matter (DM), organic matter (OM), crude protein (CP) and, gross […]

Thirty-three 39 crossbreed Holstein-Gyr steers were used in a research aiming to evaluate the effects of feed restriction prior to the confinement on the changes in body composition and in the net requirements of energy for maintenance and weight gain, and protein for weight gain. Thirty animals were submitted to a high grazing pressure, while the remaining nine steers had unrestricted access to forage (continuous gain group), after what, six animals from the first group and three from the second […]

The objective of this study was to evaluate the fitness capacity of a non-linear model in the process parameter estimation of the solid transit kinetics of bovine at pasture, using different sequences of fecal sampling. Five F1 Limousin X Nellore steers, fistulated in esophagus and rumen on Brachiaria decumbens grazing and concentrate supplemented during the rainy season period were used. The experiment was developed in three experimental periods; in a randomized completely blocks design. Chromium mordant, produced from extrusa samples, […]

The purpose of this work was to evaluate the effect of 8.4 g/day of rumen protected methionine (RPM) or 8.4 g/day of rumen non protected methionine (RNPM) or even of control cows on milk yield and compositon during 90 days of lactation. Six high yielding lactating Holsteins cows (>20 kg/day) in the first and second lactation, with 19 + 6 days of lactation were used in a duplicated latin square design. The cows were fed a total mixed ration composed […]

The present study was carried out to study the substitution of the ground corn grain by the dried citrus pulp in the starter diet of 28 Holstein calves in an early weaning system. The experimental design was in completely randomized blocks, with the blocks formed in accordance to the arrival order of the animals. The animals were slaughter at the end of the experiment. The experiment consisted on four treatments: 0, 15, 30 and 45% of citrus pulp in the […]

Three rumen cannulated buffaloes (Bubalus bubalis) and three zebu cattle (Bos indicus) were fed chopped sugar cane ad libitum and 3 kg of concentrate/animal/day during 13 weeks. After two weeks of adaptation, samples of rumen contents were weekly collected at two times: just before feeding and 40 minutes after feeding to measure the concentration and composition of ruminal fauna. Ruminal contents were mixed and re inoculated among animals from the same species after five weeks of trial starting. During the […]