Variance components were estimated for the characteristic weights at 365 and 550-days of age of animals from genetic groups used on Canchim breed development. The objective was to verify the occurrence of heterogeneity variance among the genetic groups and the its possible effect during the ranking of animals, in the genetic evaluation. The estimates were obtained for the software MTDFREML. The strategy used to estimate the components of variance for both characteristics was to consider the expression of the characteristics […]

Genealogies of 2070 animals and records from the first five lactations of 1406 cows of the Mantiqueira type cattle, daughters of 113 sires, were analyzed to estimate the frequency of inbred animals, the inbreeding average per generation and the possible effect of inbreeding increase on reproductive and productive traits. The evaluated traits were age at first calving (IPP), calving intervals (IDP), total milk production (PL) and lactation period (DL). Models for PL, IDP and DL included the fixed effects of […]

The effects of concentrate supplementation of steers during the rainny season on the performance and physical and traits of the carcass were evaluated. Fourty nine crossbreds steers were used, maintained on pastures of Brachiaria decumbens. The experiment was carried out in three experimental periods, according to a complete randomized design. The following supplements were daily fed at 10 a.m.: mineral salt (SALT), corn and soybean meal based supplements, with 20% CP, at the levels of 1.0 and 2.0 kg (CSBM1 […]

A trial was carried out to verify the effects of the addition of fumaric acid, oligosaccharide mannose (BIO-MOS®), acidifiers (ACID-ALL® ) and oligosaccharide + acidifiers in diets growing rabbits on performance. One hundred NZW rabbits, 50 males and 50 females from 39 to 75 days old, distributed in a randomized experimental design with five treatments, 10 replications and two animals by experimental unit. In the period from 39-50 and 39-75 days of experiment none of these performance characteristics was affected […]

Weight data of 205 (205W), 365 (365W) and 550 (550W) days old of Guzerá herds raised on Paraíba State from 1975 to 1990 were analysed. Genetic and maternal effects were estimated by Restricted Maximum Likelihood method (REML). It was used an animal model with fixed effects of year-month-sex, farm and age of dam at calving (linear and quadratic). The general means for 205W, 365W and 550W were respectively 141.85 ± 28.67 kg, 199.08 ± 48.43 kg and 252.32 ± 64.90 […]

The objective of this experiment was to evaluated the effect of additives on the quality and nutritive value of silages made with pejibaye palm by-product, according to the following treatments: T1 – Control (without additive); T2 – Addition of 2.5% of sugar; T3 – Addition of 10.0% of citric pulp and T4 – Addition of 10.0% of ground corn, based on natural matter. The use of 10.0% of citric pulp (CP) or ground corn (GC) increased dry matter content of […]

The objective of this research were to detect how many days where necessary to animals to adapt to diets, to measure intake and milk production; also, to evaluate the effect of four levels of crude protein in the non protein nitrogen (NPN) based compounds (2,22; 4,18; 5,96 e 8,09%) on the milk composition and production, the intake and apparent digestibilities of dry matter (DM), organic matter (OM), neutral detergent fiber (NDF), ether extract (EE), total carbohydrates (CHOT) and crude protein […]

To evaluate the use of rations with different corn and soybean meal eparticle size in productive performance, 384 Japanese quails in laying period with 13 weeks of age were allotted to laying cages. The traits consisted of different particle size of diets according to grinding size of corn (C) and soybean meal (SBM), with the use of sieve diameter of 1/8, 2/8 inches or 6 mm resulting in a GMD of 1420, 1161 and 1047 mm, respectively, and for soybean […]

This experiment was undertaken to evaluate the effect of dietary tannin on growth performance and carcass composition of piauçu, for sixty days. Twenty one aquaria (80 L) were supplied with dechlorinated tap-water (1 L/min) in a closed system. Water quality was controled by biologic filter and heater. Fish, with inicial average weight 5.06 g, in a triplicate aquaria, were randomly assigned to each of 7 treatments. Experimental diets were formulated to contain approximately 3,200 kcal of digestible energy, 30% crude […]

Average daily gain from weaning (GMD¾12) to yearling weight (P12M) of Nellore, Guzerá x Nellore (GN), Red Angus x Nellore (RN), and Marchigiana x Nellore (MN) cattle, from a crossbreeding experiment conducted at the IAPAR Paranavaí Experimental Station, produced by artificial insemination, born between 1985 and 1997 within two annual birth seasons (January – April and July – December), were analyzed. The least squares method was utilized to study 634 observations of GMD_D12 and of P12M. Calf’s birth month was […]