The objective of this work was to evaluate the effects of density and feeding programs on the productive performance and carcass and prime cuts yield in broiler chickens at 42 days of age. A completely randomized design, in a 3×2 (density x feeding programs) factorial scheme, with three replications, was used. The densities were: 10, 12 and 16 birds/m2. The feeding was composed of program 1 (four diets): pre-initial, initial, growing and finishing and program 2 (five diets): pre-initial I, […]

Thirty Canchim cows, averaged 471 kg of body weight and 50 months old, were fed with supplement during the dry season of 1998, in order to evaluate the precision of the predicted performance for different systems of diet evaluation. The supplements were composed of corn silage, corn grain, citrus pulp, cottonseed meal, soybean meal and whole soybean, in agreement with the recommendations of the Metabolizable Protein System (MP); Cornell Net Carbohydrate and Protein System (CNCPS); and Intestine Digestible Protein System […]

The effects of supplementation of crossbred steers on pasture during the wet season on dry matter (DMI), forage (FI), neutral detergent fiber (NDFI) and crude protein (CPI) intakes; digestibility of DM (DMD), NDF (NDFD) and CP (CPD); rate of passage of ruminal particles (RPR) and total mean retention time (TMRT) of the digesta; pH and concentrations of amoniacal-N in the rumen, were evaluated. Five F1 Limousin x Nelore steers fistulated in the rumen and esophagus and supplemented on Brachiaria decumbens […]

The objective of this study was to evaluate the use of corn grains in different forms (corn dry grain, high moisture corn silage, moisturized corn silage) in the diet of confined lambs, and its possible effects on the qualitative and quantitative characteristics of the carcass. Twenty male Bergamacia x Corriedade lambs were used. The animals were confined and fed ad libitum, assigned to five treatments consisted of dry corn: high moisture corn silage or moisturized corn silage (0:100, 50:50, 100:0). […]

This experiment was done at Hydrobiology and Pisciculture Section of the Dept of Animal Biology of the University Federal de Viçosa. Fingerlings of Hoplias lacerdae previously trained to accept artificial feed were selected for length and stocked in three tanks with 5000 liters each, until a biomass total of 36.72 g was reached. After 30 days the fishes were selected again for length and distribute into the same tanks, with density of 5 fishes/m², and left again for an additional […]

The performance of 32 growing Holstein heifers, with average weight of 84 kg and supplemented with monensin, during four months, was studied. The animals supplemented with monensin presented higher weight and hearth girth at 90 and 120 days of experiment, higher weight gain, with value of 26.56% superior than the control animals. No difference was observed for the corporal length, plasma glucose and the height values. The animals fed monensin presented higher height values. The animals supplemented with monensin showed […]

The objective of the present study was to use the observed data on the changes of the neutral detergent fiber (NDF), lignin and carbohydrate fractions and of the related degradation rates of 15 sugar cane varieties, to evaluate this nutrient availability in promoting the milk production of the crossbred Holstein cows using the CNCPS system. A concentrate supplement compose by corn silage, whole cottonseed and soybean meal and urea was used to attend the nutritional requirement of this animals to […]

This study was carried out to determine the apparent digestibility coefficients (ADC) of amino acids for corn, wheat bran, soybean meal and fish meal in Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus), juveniles (25.24 ± 3.88 g), fed purified pelletized reference diet containing 33.78% crude protein and 0.10% of chromic oxide (indicator). The average ADC of amino acids were: 88.31; 77.40; 91.78 and 82.58% for corn, wheat meal, soybean meal and fish meal, respectively. Althought results suggest that the protein ADC value is […]

This work was carried out from December/95 to February/96 to evaluate the effect of two herbage allowances, 4 and 8 kg green herbage dry matter/100 kg live weight, on milk yield of crossbred cows grazing Signalgrass (Brachiaria decumbens). A completely randomized design was used, and milk yield corrected to 4% fat was analyzed by covariance. During the first and second grazing cycles, herbage availabilities were 4392±974 and 2598±591 kg/ha green herbage dry matter in the paddocks, respectively. Herbage allowances had […]

The study was carried out in the county of Astorga, PR, Brazil, in the Nossa Senhora de Aparecida farm. The objective was to study the sward characteristics and forage accumulation of tanzania grass, deferred and after grazed from 07/23 to 09/18/1999, under different sward height levels. The experimental design was a completely randommized, with two replications. The treatments were four levels of sward height: T1=20, T2=40, T3=60 and T4=80 cm. However, the true sward height levels were used for analysis […]