With the objective of evaluating increasing levels of calcium in diets supplemented with the enzyme phytase for chickens from 1 to 21 days of age, an experiment was conducted using 600 1-d old Hubbard-MPK strain chicks. The broilers were allotted to a completely randomized design, factorial arrangement five x two (levels of calcium x sexes), three replicates and 20 birds per plot. The basal ration with 0.54% total phosphorus and 600 units of phytase/kg, was formulated to meet the nutritional […]

This work had the objective to evaluate the forage potential of Paspalum dilatatum Poir. biotype Virasoro and Festuca arundinacea Schreb., an exotic species in the southern regions of Brazil. The individual plant shoots were harvested for twelve months, cultivated in the field, and evaluated as for the dry matter availability (DMA), crude protein (CP) and neutral and acid detergent fiber (NDF and ADF). The virasoro showed seasonal cicle, with the maximum DMA in the spring/summer period (98 g DM/plant), while […]

Records of body weight at selection of Nelore cattle pertaining to the Sertãozinho’s Experimental Station (SP-Brasil) Nelore herds were used to study the influence of the incorporation of additional information on the estimation of annual genetic trend by least squares and mixed model methodologies. The genetic changes in all three Nelore herds (control-NeC and selected-NeS and NeT) or only in the selected ones (NeS and NeT) were estimated, only for the females, by least squares, by mixed model including their […]

Trairão (Hoplias cf. lacerdae) fingerlings, averaging 12.52 g and 10.5 cm, respectively, previously trained to accept artificial feed, were stocked in six tanks (5 m²), under two stocking rates: 1 and 4 fingerling/m², constituting the treatments t1 and t2, respectively. The fishes of the different treatments were ad libitum fed an extruded commercial diet containing 42% crude protein, at 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. at each 30 days, the water volume of all tanks was 100% replaced. at the end […]

The aims of this study were evaluate influence of the environmental and genetic effects on the kidding interval, using 486 records of kidding crossbred dairy goats obtained from 1988 to 1996 in Paraiba State. The environmental effects were analyzed by means of the procedure GLM of the SAS with a model that included as fixed factors the contemporary group and kidding type, and covariates age of goat at kidding and lactation length. Buck, goat inside of the buck and error […]

The rumen fermentative characteristics of Nelore steers grazing Brachiaria Brizantha pastures (Teste), or supplemented during the dry season (Seca), dry and wet seasons (Ano) or with free access to a Leucaena bank (Banco), in a randomized block design with four replications, were evaluated. The dry season supplement had 46.9% CP, 70% rumen degradable, and the wet season supplement, 43.9%CP, 60% degradable. Rumen liquor was collected on August, November, February and May. The molar proportions of propionic acid in the supplemented […]

The objective of this study was to evaluate the caecal microbial activity and caecotrophy nutritional contribution in rabbits fed diets with differents starch levels (22 or 32% on average) from a high or low inclusion of corn grain and differents fiber sources (alfalfa hay or soybean hulls), in a 2×2 factorial design. In the first experiment, 40 rabbits were individually housed in fattening cages within entirely randomized design, and fed ad libitum from 45 to 85 days of age, when […]

The aim of this experiment was to determine the dry matter content, pH and the volatilized ammonia from the poultry litter treated or not with different additives. Four hundred and forty birds were used, in randomized block design, with five treatments (1 – new litter; 2 – reused litter (RL); 3 – RL treated with aluminum sulfate; 4 – RL treated with gypsum and 5 – RL treated with hydrated lime) and four replicates. The samples of the litter were […]

An experiment was conducted with objective to evaluate the effect of the simple and complex diets on the morpho-fisiologycal gastrointestinal of young pigs, on their pre nursery (7th to 21st day) and nursery phases (21st to 35nd of age). Ninety six crossbreed young pigs (male and females) were allotted to a randomized block design with four treatments, six replications and four young pigs for each experimental unit. It were used diets: two simple; a with 16 and the other with […]

66.035 records from Nellore, Hereford, Angus and Nellore x Angus and Nellore x Hereford crossbred calves were analyzed to estimate the influence of cow age, age at weaning and the julian birth date on average daily gain from birth to weaning. The statistical analysis indicated that these three covariates had significant effects on this trait. Furthermore, the linear adjustment for age at weaning was not enough to remove this effect on the average daily gain. These results show that these […]