The experiment was conducted for three years at the Epagri, Ituporanga Experimental Station, located on Southern Brazil (27º 38’S, 43º 60’W), to evaluate the best seeding date and density for Avena strigosa Schreb. and Lolium multiflorum Lam. at the Alto Vale do Itajaí Region. The experimental design was based on randomized blocks, with subdivided plots and three replicates. Time treatments were: T1 = middle of March; T2 = middle of April; T3 = middle of May; T4 = middle of […]

The digestibility coefficients and thetrue digestible amino acids contents of corn and corn byproducts were determined by using cecectomized adult cockerels. Each one of the 11 feedstuffs evaluated was fed to six cockerels, consuming 15 g at 8a.m. and 15 g at 4p.m. after fastening by 24 hours. Simultaneously, six cockerels were fasted to determine metabolic and endogenous losses. After determination of the digestibility coefficients and calculation of the digestible amino acids, prediction equations were simulated to predict the corn […]

Levels of metabolizable energy (ME) of 2,900, 3,100 and 3,300 kcal and energy to protein ratio (EM: PB) of 128, 148, 168 and 188 kcal/%CP were evaluated with male broiler chicks from 22 to 42 days of age, assigned to a completely randomized 3 x 4 factorial design, where each treatment had four replications of 18 birds. Increasing the ME: CP ratio resulted in linear decreasing effect on feed intake, live weight, weight gain, crude protein intake, energy intake, carcass […]

An experiment was conducted to study the effects of three levels (5, 10 and 15%) of L-Glutamic Acid (L-Glu) and four levels (0, 5000, 10,000 and 15,000 IU/kg of diet) of vitamin D3 (VD) on bone parameters of 14 days male broilers, Hubbard. They were fed purified amino acid diets and reared in electrically heated batteries. The experimental design was a factorial 3 x 4 with four replicates with seven chicks each. The length of bones increased up to an […]

The experiment was carried out with 20 Holstein intact male calves to study the carcass characteristics of these animals fed with diets containing 45, 60, 75 and 90% of concentrate. Diets were composed of coastcross hay, ground corn grain, soybean meal and mineral mixture fed ad libitum. A completely randomized blocks experimental design, with four treatments and five replications, was used. Before the beginning of the experiment, all animals were submitted to the same nursing system. The experimental period was […]

The work was conducted to relate the energy availability with the feedstuffs composition obtained form fast and cheap analysis, due to the importance of nutritive value and to the impossibility to measure the available energy of the feedstuffs by simple lab analysis. This work were carried out at the Universidade Federal de Viçosa (UFV) using as a data source all thesis published at the Animal Science Department that contained the energy of the feeds available considering the total digestible nutrients […]

This experiment was conducted to evaluate the levels of total threonine in diets for gilts from 30 to 60 kg of live weight. Forty females, with initial average weight of 29.2 ± 1.4 kg, were used in an experimental design of randomized blocks, with five treatments (0.60; 0.65; 0.70; 0.75 and 0.80% of total threonine), four replications and two animals per experimental unit. The basal diet with 18% of crude protein and 0.928% of total lysine, attended the requirements of […]

The experiment was conducted utilizing hull and dehydrated pulp of coffee cultivars Catuaí, Rubi and Mundo Novo. Pulp was obtained by moist pulping in a mechanical pulper and dried up to 13% moisture. Materials were stored in raffia bags in ventilated, moistureless environment and sun sampled every 90 days. 400 mg of each sample (DM and NDF) were incubated in vitro in triplicates in a water bath at 39ºC. The cumulative gas production was obtained at 1,2,3,4,5,5,12, 18, 24, 30, […]

The aim of this work was to estimate selection response for performance traits average daily gain (ADG), off-test age (A95) and number of days on test (ND95), to reach 95 kg of live weight, evaluated for Landrace (LD), Large White (LW), and Pietrain (PT) breeds, in a nucleus herd. Breeding values were predicted using mixed model methodology. Estimates of response were determined using Weighted Least Squares method. The estimates were favourable for three breeds and both sex. For ADG these […]

The objectives of this work were to study the functional anatomy and the comparative morphometry in the medium intestine and in the rectum of Teleostei, surubim, Pseudoplatystoma coruscans (Agassiz, 1829) (Siluriformes, Siluroidei, Pimelodidae), with carnivorous feeding habits, in two size classes, aiming to provide nutritional data for the adjustment of different artificial feeding system. It was concluded that the surubim intestine, under a morphological view, must be called of medium intestine and rectum, due to the presence of ileo-rectal valve […]