Four crossbred bovines (Zebu x Holstein) fed in nature, hydrolyzed, hydrolyzed sugar cane hay and silage as roughage sources constituting 70% of the diets were used to study the effect of alkali treatment of sugar cane (1.5% of NaOH at 50%) on dietary total digestibility and dry matter intake and rate of passage of sugar canes. The fiber was the most influenced fraction by the alkali treatment and increased at least by 45% of digestibility. The increases of 25.0 and […]

The maintenance net energy requirement of steers grazing elephangrass (Pennisetum purpureum, Schum) cv. Napier, as unique food, was determined. The trial lasted 175 days. Nine 0.5 ha paddocks were implanted in flat-land, in rotational grazing, were used. Thirty-six ¾ Gyr-Holstein steers averaging initial age of 20 months and 332 ± 37 kg body weight (BW) were used. Half of animals had grazing time restricted to four hours daily, to limit energy intake at a level close to maintenance, and half […]

Sixty swine (Landrace x Large White) with initial weight of 14.97 ± 0.33 kg and 50.36 ± 3.29 days old were allotted to a blocks randomized experimental design, with five treatments (0.465, 0.511, 0.558, 0.605, and 0.652% digestible methionine + and cystine)and six replicates of two animals, to determine the sulphurous amino acids requirements for barrows on a high temperature environment from 15 to 30 kg. Diets and water were fed ad libitum until the end of the experimental period, […]

A Bayesian marker-free segregation analysis was applied for the estimation of variance components and to search for evidence of segregation genes affecting two carcass traits: intramuscular fat (IMF), %, and backfat thickness (BF), mm ; and one growth trait: body weight gain (LG) from 25 to 90 kg, approximately, g/day. In this study, 1,257 animals from the F2 design produced by breeding among pigs Meishan (male) and Dutch Large White and Landrace lines (female) were used. In animal breeding, finite […]

Two trials were conducted to evaluate the energetic value and the optimum level of increasing dietary annatto seed by-product (ASB) levels for broiler chick. In the first trial, sixty Ross male broiler chicks (516 + 8.62 g) were fed ad libitum with a basal diet (BD) and a mixture of BD+30% ASB. The first trial was analyzed as a complete randomized design with five replications of six birds. Feces were collected in the morning and afternoon from age 20 to […]

The objectives of this research were to estimate heritability (h2) of heifer pregnancy and its genetic correlation (rg) with age at first calving (AFC) in a Nellore herd. Heifer pregnancy evaluated as three different definitions: pregnancy at 16 months (Pr16) – heifers calving before 31 months received 1 (success) and those calving after 30.99 months or that failed received 0 (failure); pregnancy at 24 months (Pr24) – heifers calving until 46 months of age (including Pr16) received 1 and those […]

The net energy content for maintenance (NEm) and gain (NEg) of the napiergrass, under rotational grazing, as well as the changes on protein and fat concentrations in body and in weight gain of 36 ¾ Gyr-Holstein steers, grazing the forage, during the rainy season were determined. Half of steers had grazing time restricted to four hours daily, to limit energy intake to a level close to the maintenance level, and half had free access to the pasture. Six steers were […]

The effects of feeding management strategies on larval rearing of trairao were evaluated in this trial. Eight-d old larvae were counted and stocked in 20 experimental containers (units with volume of 5 L each), with constant aeration and temperature. The stocking density was 30 larvae/L. The following treatments (feeding frequency) were used: F1 – once a day, F2 – twice a day, F3 – three times a day, F4 – four times a day, each with five replicates. Feeding rate […]

Some morphogenic and structural characteristics of four forage grasses grown under four soil moisture conditions were assessed. The forage species were: Setaria anceps Stapf., Hemarthria altissima [Poir] Stapf. & Hubbard, Acroceras macrum Stapf. and Brachiaria purpurascens [Raddi] Henr. Soil moisture level was controlled by weighing individual pots and by relative saturation of total porosity (RSTP). A randomized block design with three replications was used. Four plants of each specie were submitted to four soil moisture levels: deficit (50% RSTP)(D), control […]

Forty steers averaging 371 kg BW were allotted to a randomized block design with a 3 x 3 factorial arrangement, where four steers were slaughtered as reference, to evaluate the effects of feeding different protein sources (urea, amiferm, soybean meal) and forage (sugar cane, corn silage and pasture Bracharia brizantha) on carcass biometry and viscera and internal organs weights. Diets were formulated to be isoenergetic and isonitrogenous. No significant forage x protein source interaction was detected. It was not observed […]