The objectives of this experiment were to determine dry matter intake (DMI), apparent digestibility of dry matter (ADMD), organic matter (ADOM), neutral detergent fiber (ADNDF), in vitro DM digestibility (IVDMD) and protein and carbohydrate fractions of Bermuda grass hay harvested at 21, 42, 63 and 84 days. The experimental design used to estimate the feed intake and the apparent digestibility was a 4 x 4 Latin square and to evaluate age effect was used regression analysis. Dry matter intake (DMI) […]

It was carried out an experiment with goats Saanen, on the first lactation, with 50 kg of body weight, housed in individual stalls of 3 m², to evaluate the effect of substitution of soybean meal (SM) protein by the protein from the corn gluten flour (CGF), in the milk production, milk composition, voluntary intake and plasmatic urea. The experimental design was the triple Latin square 4×4, with four periods of 21 days, being 14 days of adaptation to the diet […]

This experiment aimed to evaluate the effect of environmental temperature upon the morphometric characteristics of the fiber types in the flexor hallucis longus muscle of broilers in pair-feeding, thus isolating the effect of voluntary feed intake. Sixteen male broiler, Ross, were allotted to a completely randomized design with two treatments (heat stress and cold stress), and seven and nine replications, respectively. Forty-three-day-old heat stressed broilers weighed 1.255 g and those in cold stress, pair-fed, weighed 1.086 g. The birds subjected […]

Restricted maximum likelihood (REML) estimates of additive and residual variances and covariances for birth weight and adjusted weights at 120, 205, 240, 365, 420 e 550 days of age were used to estimate growth covariance functions (CFs) of Tabapuã beef calves. Data were observed on 41,415 animals born from 1975 to 1997 and raised under pasture conditions. Estimation of CFs is a very useful tool to analyze beef cattle growth. It was possible to estimate covariance between any pair of […]

The potential of the semi-automated in vitro gas production technique was evaluated by incubation of four hybrids of sorghum (BR700, BR701, BR601 and AG2002). The results of this experiment (in vitro dry matter digestibility, DMD) were compared with the apparent in vivo digestibility. The relationship between the dry matter digestibility obtained by the gas production technique after 96 hours of incubation and the apparent dry matter digestibility in vivo was demonstrated by the equation: in vivo digestibility (g/kg) = 0.46 […]

Two experiments using New Zealand White x Californian rabbits were carried out with the objective of evaluating the effect of fiber source particle size on digestive traits of growing rabbit and the production, chemical composition and cecotrophes nutritive contribuition on dry matter (DM) and crude protein (CP) base. Four diets were prepared with different particle size of sugar cane bagasse with average geometric diameters of .231, .506, .616 and .833 mm. The productive performance and weight of the full and […]

Morphogenetic and structural variables were obtained from measurements performed on marked tillers and were quantified during August to October 1999 in a ryegrass pasture grazed by sheep under continuous stocking and variable stocking rate in order to maintain the sward at four different heights (5, 10, 15 and 20 cm). The experimental design was a randomized complete block with three replicates. Fifty marked tillers per experimental unit were assessed and distributed along transects lines. Sward measurements were performed in two […]

The aim of the analysis systems for rearing of beef heifers in black oats (Avena strigosa Schreb) and annual ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum Lam) pasture was to determine animal performance and economic relationships. Data were analyzed from four grazing trials performed at the Federal University of Santa Maria, RS. Production costs, animal production and gross margin were evaluated. The trials were conducted from 1998 to 2001. The feeding systems were YEAR 1: STP- animal supplementation during entire pasture cycle; SAS – […]

The objectives of this work were to determine the chemical composition, the potentialy degradable fraction of NDF (B2) and undegradable fraction (C) and to estimate the ruminal fill of sugar cane with different cycles of production (early and intermediate), in three cut times (426, 487 and 549 days). The laboratorial analysis consisted in dry matter (DM), organic matter, ash, crude protein (CP), ether extract, lignin, neutral detergent fiber (NDF), neutral detergent fiber corrected for ash and protein, acid detergent fiber […]

Two experimental assays were carried out to evaluate the effect of the soybean oil and enzymatic complex addition in corn and soybean meal based diets on the broilers performance and nutrients digestibility. In the experiment 1, 960 broiler chickens, unsexed, received the treatments into 4 x 2 factorial scheme (four levels of soybean oil addition, 0; 2.5; 5.0 and 7.5%, with or without addition of a enzymatic complex with amylase, xylanase and protease) in four replicates of 30 chickens each, […]