A total of 192 weaning crossbred Landrace x Large White piglets weighing 6.9 kg and 23 days old was used to determine the effect of addition of flavours in simple or complex diet on the performance, blood parameters and the organs weight of piglets. A randomized block design, in a 2 x 3 factorial scheme, with two diets (simple or complex) and addition or not of two flavours (F1 and F2), was used. It was observed that the flavour addition […]

The objective of this work was to evaluate the ruminal degradation and intestinal and total dry matter (DM) and crude protein (CP) digestibility of soybean meal, corn grain, dry molasses, fish meal, feather meal and alfalfa hay, by the in situ degradability technique associated to the mobile nylon bag technique. The samples of the feeds were milled and put in nylon bag of 10×5 cm (48 micras) in the amounts of 15 and 5 mg of DM/cm2 for concentrate feeds […]

The coefficients of apparent digestibility of dry matter (CADDM), organic matter (CADOM), crude protein (CADCP), ether extract (CADEE), total carbohydrates (CADTCHO), nonfiber carbohydrates (CADNFC), neutral detergent fiber (CADNDF) and acid detergent fiber (CADADF) were determined to evaluate the effect of the increasing dietary energy levels. The estimate of the apparent digestibility of the nutrients, using the method of fecal total collection, and the estimate of fecal dry matter production (FDMP), by the indigestible acid detergent fiber (IADF), as internal marker, […]

The objective of this study was to estimate the heritabilities and the genetic correlations of body weight (BW12) and scrotal circumference (SC12) of males at twelve months of age and culling age (DH, days in herd) of females, and number (NW10) and kilograms (KW10) of weaned calves produced by females up to ten years of age, in a Canchim (5/8 Charolais + 3/8 Zebu) beef cattle herd. Data were composed of 1370, 826, 826, 2726 and 1051 observations of DH, […]

Ten adult Corriedale sheep were evaluated for respiratory (ER) and cutaneous (EC) evaporation rates. The animals were observed about 10 times each by recording changes in their live weigth with high-sensitiviy strain gauges, under different conditions of air temperature (21.1 to 41.9ºC) and partial vapour pressure (1.53 to 3.01 kPa). Average evaporation rates were 0.7599±0.0094 g.h-1.kg-1 for ER and 1.3029±0.0591 g.h-1.kg-1 for EC. Cutaneous evaporation was considered as an important heat loss mechanism for sheep in hot environments. There were […]

Corn and soybean meal based diets with increasing levels of ground peas, sub-species hortense cultivar Alfetta (0, 20 and 40%), were formulated to evaluate the nutritional value of this ingredient with 18 castrated male pigs of commercial hybrids averaging 40 kg. The study also aimed to determine the apparent digestible and metabolizable energy and nitrogen retentions of peas. A total period of four weeks was used in which body weight gain, feed intake, feed conversion and amount of feces and […]

Records of 4959 lactation in 1985 to 1998 of 2414 Brown Swiss cows breed, daughters of 70 sires in 51 herds, were used to estimate the genetic trend for milk and fat yield adjusted for 305 days of lactation and mature age of cows (PL305ME and PG305ME). The genetic trend for sires was estimated using a linear regression of the breeding values of the sires to their daughters calving year, averaged to number of daughters in each calving year. The […]

Selenium and vitamin E are important antioxidants for cells and tissues protection acting directly as a support for the udder health. This experiment was designed to evaluate the influence of prepartum selenium and vitamin E supplementation on milk somatic cell counts of Holstein cows. Eighty four animals were allocated into four treatments: control; supplementation with 5 mg Se/day; supplementation with 1000 UI vitamin E/day and supplementation with 5 mg Se/day + 1000 UI vitamin E/day. The supplementation started thirty days […]

A study was conducted in the Brazilian Cerrados to evaluate the performance of six tropical forage grasses (Brachiaria brizantha cv. Marandu, B. brizantha cv. MG-4, B. decumbens cv. Basilisk, Panicum maximum cv. Mombaça, Melinis minutiflora and Hyparrhenia rufa), associated or not with the tropical forage legume Stylosanthes guianensis cv. Mineirão, in a silvopastoral system with a clone of Eucalyptus sp. The forages were established in plots of 12 x 10 m, in the interrows of eucalypts, in a randomized block […]

The experiment was developed at Instituto de Zootecnia in São José do Rio Preto, SP, and the objective was to evaluate the digestibility coefficients, the nutrients intake, and the nitrogen balance of diets with 20% of corn silage and 80% of concentrate and 0, 25, 40 and 55% of citrus pulp in total dry matter, replacing corn grain. Eight crossbred lambs, with nine months of age and 34 kg of liveweight, were fed in individual cages, where feces and urine […]