The research was carried out to evaluate qualitative aspects of a B. humidicola degraded pasture managed under different recovery methods in Bezerros-PE. A confounded split-plot randomized block design was used. The main plot was formed by the factorial arrangement between managements and fertilization levels. The splitplot model consisted of the different deferment periods. The factors were represented by four recovery managements (no-tillage, arrowing, arrowing + corn, no-tillage + corn), two N levels (0 and 100 kg/ha of N), two P […]

The experiment was conducted to evaluate protein sources and levels in the initial diets, for piglets weaned at 21 days of age. The animals were allotted in a completely randomized design in a factorial 2 x 2 x 2, with type of diets ( dried whey and fish meal + lactose), levels of crude protein (20 and 24%) and piglet weight at weaning (<6,0 and > 6,0kg), in a total of 8 treatments and four replications each. In the experimental […]

An experiment was conducted to determine the best electrolyte balance (EB) for broiler chicks from one to 21 days of age, based on blood and bone parameters. One day old chicks, male, Ross were reared on floor covered with shaving woods and fed with two corn-soybean meal based diet with 20 and 23% of crude protein (CP) combined with 0; 50; 100; 150; 200; 250; 300 and 350 mEq/kg of EB. The experiment was analised as a completely randomized design […]

The objective of this study was to evaluate the cryopreservation of in vitro mature or immature oocytes by conventional method. The experiment was conducted using oocytes of cows’ ovaries from slaughterhouse, distributed into six treatments: unfrozen oocytes with the cumulus oophorus cells (T1) and naked (T2) which were submitted to the process of MIV, FIV and CIV; immature oocytes, with the cumulus oophorus cells (T3) and naked (T4), which were submitted to the cryopreservation, unfrozen and the MIV, FIV and […]

The effect of antibiotic, probiotic and homeopathy in broilers inoculated or not with Escherichia coli was evaluated. Six hundred and seventy two male broilers of Avian Farm strain were assigned to a completely randomized design, in a factorial scheme, with eight treatments (four additives x inoculation or not) and six replicates, with 14, 12 and 7 birds by experimental box, respectively, according to the periods from 1 to 11, from 12 to 21 and from 22 to 42 days of […]

This experiment was established in greenhouse at Embrapa Clima Temperado, Pelotas, RS, with the objective to evaluate the effects of different doses of phosphorus and potassium on dry matter production of aerial biomass and roots, length of above ground parts and roots and efficiency and score of nodulation of three cool season annual forage legumes. The treatments were five doses of P (0,0; 1,08; 2,15; 3,23 e 4,30 mg de P2O5/dm3) and K (00,0; 0,43; 0,85; 1,28 e 1,70 mg […]

The effect of feeding systems on performance of beef heifers, on period of eight to 18/20 months of age. Charolais heifers and their crosses with Nellore were evaluated. The feeding systems were: ‘Oat + Annual ryegrass + Pearl millet’- Black oat (Avena strigosa Schreb) and Annual ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum Lam) and Pearl millet (Pennisetum americanum (L.) Leeke) pasture; ‘Oat + Annual ryegrass + natural pasture’- Black oat and annual ryegrass and natural pasture with Annoni grass (Eragrostis planna Nees); ‘Oat […]

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 experiment was performed to evaluate plasma urea nitrogen (PUN) level of crossbred cows under two rotational grazing areas, one of elephantgrass cv. Guaçu (Pennisetum purpureum Schum. cv. Guaçu) and other one of Tanzaniagrass (Panicum maximum Jacq. cv. Tanzania). Forage production, stem, leaf and dead material were also evaluated, on dry matter basis (DM), as well as the crude protein (CP) and neutral detergent fiber (NDF) in the forage samples. Blood was collected four times, using 16 cows for grass […]

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 […]