The nutritional requirement of digestible lysine was determined in 180 Lohmann LSL white-egg laying hens raised from 79 to 95 weeks of age. The birds were allotted to five levels (0.555; 0.605; 0.655; 0.705 and 0.755%) of digestible lysine, six replicates and six birds per experimental unit. Quadratic effect of digestible lysine levels on feed intake, average weight gain, feed conversion/egg mass, the egg weight and the egg mass was observed. For the characteristics digestible lysine intake, feed conversion/dozen eggs […]

Some morphophysiological responses of Brachiaria brizantha cv. Marandu, cv. Piatã, cv. Arapoty, B163, B166 and B. ruziziensis R124 were compared in plants grown in pots, under flooded and well-drained conditions. Flooding reduced leaf elongation rate in all accessions. Leaf dry mass production was lower under flooding than in the control plants in all the studied accessions, except in cv. Piatã. Root dry mass production was reduced by flooding in cv. Marandu and in R124, while the proportion of biomass allocated […]

Data from 1456 purebred and crossbred cows of five different crossbred groups involving the Holstein (H) and Gyr (G) breeds (H; ¾H ¼G; ½H ½G; 3/8H 5/8G e ¼H ¾G) were used to compare their milk production and reproductive traits in the Brazilian central plateau region. The performance traits studied were: average daily milk production (DMP); lactation length (LL); total production in 305 days (P305) and age at first calving (AFC), gestation length (GL) and calving interval (CI). Higher averages […]

A total of 84 barrows and females from a commercial hybrid (Agroceres × MS60), averaging 15.3 kg, was raised from 15 to 35 kg to evaluate the effect of different dietary levels of metabolizable energy (ME) and crude protein (CP) formulated according to the ideal protein concept and phytase supplementation on performance and carcass characteristics. The experiment was analyzed as a complete randomized block design, in a factorial arrangement of treatments 3 × 2 + 1, with three ME levels […]

The objective was to study the effect of the monensin on milk yield and milk composition, somatic cell count, body condition score, serum parameters and reproductive aspects high producing Holstein cows in early lactation. Fourty-four cows with daily milk yield of the 33.44 ± 4.93 liter of milk were assigned to a completely randomized design with two treatments: control (C) and other with controlled released monesin capsule with eficacy of 100 days (300 mg/cow/day). The individual administration of the monensin […]

An experiment using signalgrass hay treated with increasing urea levels (0, 20, 40, and 80 g/kg of dry matter), and submitted to in vitro digestion times (0, 6, 12, 24 or 72 hours) was conducted to evaluate the effects of ammoniation rates and digestion times on leaf blade tissue degradation. A completely randomized design with a 4 × 5 factorial treatment arrangement, with three replicates was used. Data were submitted to multivariate analysis. Urea-treated hay presented smaller proportion of remaining […]

This work was carried out to determine the nutritional value of corn of different qualities, obtained by means of stratification in densimetric table, for broilers in different ages. The corns were designed as: MDA – high density corn; MDI – medium density corn; MDB – low density corn and MDT – total density corn, composed by 30% MDA, 60% MDI and 10% MDB. Two biological assays were carried out using the traditional total excreta collection method to determine the apparent […]

Four hundred birds Hubbard linage with average weight of 675g were distributed to completely randomized block design, based in birds he weight, with five treatments and four replications. The experimental diets were constituted of five metabolizable energy levels (2,800, 2,900, 3,000, 3,100 and 3,200 kcal of ME/kg ration) formulated to attend the nutritional requirements, except for metabolizable energy. The increase of energy was obtained by the addition of soybean oil. The variance and regression analysis was made, associating the energy […]

A total of 60 barrow pigs (89.1 ± 4.2 kg) was used to evaluate five levels (0, 5, 10, 15 and 20%) of qualitative feed restriction, resulting in values of 3,407, 3,420, 3,060, 2,890, and 2,720 kcal/kg DE in the diet. Ten animals were slaughtered at the beginning of the experiment to determine the initial body composition, while the others were fed with the experimental diets until reaching 128 kg of body weight. A randomly block design was used to […]

The body composition and protein and energy requirements for growth of steers of four genetic groups finished in feedlot were evaluated in this experiment. comparative slaughter method was used in a completely randomly experimental design, with four treatments: Nellore (NE), ½ Aberdeen Angus + ½ Nellore (AN), ½ Canchim + ½ Nellore (CN) e ½ Simmental + ½ Nellore (SN). Forty-seven steers averaging 310 kg initial shrunk body weight (SBW) and 22 months were fed during 101 days in a […]