Three hundred and sixty 45-days old female quails, averaging 137.0 g, were used during four experimental periods of 28 days each. A completely randomized block design, with six replicates and ten females per experimental unit, was used to study the digestible methionine plus cystine requirement and the best digestible methionine plus cystine: digestible lysine ratio (0.60, 0.65, 0.70, 0.75, 0.80 and 0.85), on the rate of eggs production (%), egg weight (g), eggs mass (g of eggs/quail/day), feed intake (g), […]

Fourteen random regression models were used to adjust 86,595 test-day milk records of 2,155 first lactation of native Caracu cows. The models include fixed effects of contemporary group and age of cow as covariable. A cubic regression on Legendre orthogonal polynomial of days in milk was used to model the mean trend and the additive genetic and permanent environmental regressions. Different structures of residual variances were tried and considered through homogeneous variances or heterogeneous variances, modeled as a step function […]

An experiment was carried out in a greenhouse from November 2000 to February 2001 with the objective of evaluating the effects of nitrogen (N) and potassium (K) rates on tillering, leaf area, total root length, total root surface, specific root length and specific root surface of Panicum maximum Jacq. cv. Mombaça. The forage grass was grown in nutrient solution using ground quartz as substrate. The experimental arrange used was an incomplete 5² factorial of N and K and the 13 […]

Ruminal fermentation parameters of diets containing high moisture sorghum silage in replacement of high moisture corn silage were studied in 12 dry cows (584 kg of BW). A completely randomized design was used with three treatments: high moisture sorghum silage replacing high moisture corn silage at levels of 0, 50, and 100%. Diets contained high moisture corn or sorghum silages, extruded soybean, urea, oat hay (Avena sativa sp.), mineral supplement and monensin. The trial extended for 21 days, the last […]

The aim of this experiment was to compare the efficiency of a hormonal protocol, associated to the temporary weaning for 96 hours, with the definitive weaning at 60 days in beef cows, for the induction of estrus and ovulation. One hundred and eighty-three suckled beef cows were used. The breeds of the cows were Charolais (C) and Nellore (N) and their crosses. The animals were genotyped as homozygous (HOM) and heterozigous (HET) for the microsatellite BMS3004, that is localized in […]

Five hundred and forty 7-days old female quails, averaging 21.50 g, were used during 35 days. A completely randomized blocks design with five replicates and 18 females per experimental unity was used to study the effect of six digestible methionine plus cystine: digestible lysine ratios (0.48, 0.53, 0.58, 0.63, 0.68 and 0.75) on the traits evaluated during the growing period. Final weight (g), weight gain (g), feed intake (g), feed conversion (g/g), feather rate (%), chemical composition (%) (dry matter, […]

Three varieties of Panicum maximum Jacq. were evaluated by measuring the botanical and chemical composition of the diet, and the dry matter intake and weight gain of the animal under rotational grazing, before and after a period of grazing. The treatments were: 1) v. Tanzânia + 50 kg N/ha, 2) v. Tanzânia + 100 kg N/ha, 3) v. Mombaça + 50 kg N/ha, and 4) v. Massai + 50 kg N/ha. Of the diets selected by the animals, v. Massai […]

This work had as objective to evaluate the chemical composition alteration in the nitrogen and carbohydrate fractions, to estimate the digestion rate of fiber carbohydrates (FC) and non-fiber carbohydrates (NFC), to determine the in vitro dry matter digestibility (IVDMD) and to estimate the TDN of sorghum silage with different panicle proportions (0, 20 , 40, 60, 80 and 100%). The contents of dry matter (DM), crude protein (CP), ether extract (EE), ash, neutral detergent fiber (NDF), nitrogen fractions: NPN, B1+B2, […]

Three hundred 49-days old Japanese female quails, averaging 138.0g, were used to estimate the requirement of digestible lysine level for Japanese quail in completely randomized block design with five replicates of ten females per experimental unit. The treatment consisted six levels of digestible lysine (0.80, 0.90, 1.00, 1.10, 1.20 and 1.30%) and the analyzed traits were rate of egg production (%), egg weight (g), egg mass (g of eggs/quail/day), feed intake (g), feed consumption: weight gain ratio (g of diet/g […]

Live weight at the beginning of the finishing period (IFW), average daily gain (ADG), slaughter weight (SW), cold carcass weight (CCW), carcass dressing percentage (DP), subcutaneous fat thickness (SFT) and slaughter age in days (SA) of 32 castrated males Braford, previously weaned at 100 (EW) or 180 days (CW) and slaughtered at 13-14 months old, were evaluated. From CW (03/06/01) until the beginning of finishing period (08/09/01), when passed to an improved pasture of ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum L.), the calves […]