The forage digestion characteristics can better be understood when associated with studies of tissue anatomy of forage species. Aiming at new focus to this issue, the area of several tissues present in leaves and stems of B. brizantha and B. humidicola, were determined at three different regions of the plant. The assay was carried out at greenhouse, with plants growing in pots with sterilized sand, receiving nutritive solution of macro and micronutrients. After 70 days of growing period, the segment […]

The objective of this work was to evaluate the effect of the substitution of corn by cassava peel (CP), in complete rations for growing goats, on the nutrients intake, nutrient digestibility, average daily weight gain and the economical analysis of the rations. Twenty four females Saanen were used, with medium initial weight of 24,20± 2,28 kg and medium age of 10 months. The animals received a complete ration with 59% of hay of Coast-cross (Cynodon dactylon L.) (7,08% PB) and […]

The objective of this work was to evaluate the production and composition of milk of beef cows of four genetic groups, including Charolais (C), Nellore (N), CN crossbreds daughters of C bulls, and NC crossbreds, daughters of N bulls, maintained on native pasture and submitted to different managements during pre-weaning: supplemented with rice bran (.7% of the body weight) and weaned at 42 or 63 days postpartum, or non supplemented and weaned at 63 days. The cow age varied from […]

The research was carried out to evaluate the performance of kids submitting of different periods of suckling. Forty-two Alpine goats crossbred (21 males and 21 females) were assigned to three treatments with 14 replicates: T1 weaning at 56; T2 weaning at the 70 and T3 weaning at the 84 days old. The liquid diet (goat milk) was fed up to 35 days old, in two suckling and, after, the animals received the same quantity of goat milk at one suckling, […]

To obtain the adequate slaughter weights and costs of production of young bulls, a feedlot study was conducted at Embrapa Pecuaria Sudeste, with 234 crossbred Blonde d´Aquitaine x Nellore (BN); Canchim x Nellore (CN); Limousin x Nellore (LN); Piedmontese x Nellore (PN); and straightbred Canchim (CA) and Nellore (NE) in 1994, 1995 and 1997. At the beggining of the experiment, the animals had 12 months of age and the BN, CA, CN, LN weighed 265 kg, the NE 214 kg […]

Six Nellore bulls, with initial body weight of 420 kg, were used to evaluate cromium oxide determined by X-ray fluorescence as an external markers of digestibility. Cromium oxide was compared to internal indicators: indigestible NDF (NDFi) incubated in vitro for 144 hours and acid detergent lignin and total feces collection. Digestibility coefficients of DM, OM, NDF, ADF, CP and EE were estimated. Experimental diets were: 1) soybean meal, in a RDP deficient diet; 2) urea; 3) starea (non protein nitrogen […]

The objective of the experiment was to evaluate the performance of Charolais (CH) and ½Nellore (NE) ½CH (produced by CH cows), NE and ½CH ½NE (produced by NE cows) calves, mantained with the cows until weaning, on native pasture (NP) or winter (oat + italian rye grass) and summer (alexander grass) cultivated pasture (CP). Sixty straigthbred or crossbreds calves were used, and weighted at birth; 14; 42; 70; 98; 126; 154; 182 days; and at weaning. The cows milk yield […]

The corn hybrids AG 510 and AG 5011 (Agroceres) were ensiled in plastic experimental silos (four units/treatment), consisting of eight treatments: control (without inoculation), Sil-All® (S. faecium, P. acidilactici, L. plantarum, amylase, hemicellulase, and cellulase), Silobac® (L. plantarum, S. faecium, and Lactobacillus sp.), and Pioneer 1174® (S. faecium and L. plantarum). Silos were opened 106 days after ensiling and sampled to proceed chemical analyses. AG 510 and AG 5011 hybrids differed for DM (35.26 vs. 44.06%), CP (8.07 vs. 9.73%), […]

To obtain slaughter weight and age and the carcass characteristics of young bulls, a feedlot study was conducted at Embrapa Pecuária Sudeste. A total of 215 animals from Embrapa and private farms, 3/8 and ½ Blonde d´Aquitaine x Nellore; ½ Canchim x Nellore; ½ Limousin x Nellore; ½ Piedmontese x Nellore; Canchim (CA) and Nellore (NE), were used in 1994, 1995 and 1997. The slaughter weights (TRAT) of 400 (I); 440 (II) and 480 kg (III), except for NE cattle […]

Six Nellore bulls, with initial body weight of 420 kg, were assigned to a duplicated 3×3 Latin square design to evaluate the effects of replacing a true protein source (soybean meal), of high biological value, in a rumen degradable protein (RDP) deficient diet, by urea or starea (a supposedly slow release nonprotein nitrogen source), both in a RDP adjusted diet. In natura sugarcane bagasse as the only source of forage (20% of DM). Evaluated parameters were: rumen ammonia-N concentration, plasma […]