Two assays were carried out to evaluate the precision of the mobile nylon bag technique in relation to the total collection method, to estimate the apparent digestibility of nutrients of the forages in equines. Six adult crossbred horses averaging seven years old were used. In first assay, the values of digestibility of the nutrients of coast-cross hay were compared using the mobile nylon bag technique with sample ground at three different granulometries with the total feces collection. In the second […]

Thirty two Santa Gertrudis young bulls with an initial weight of 230 kg and 9 months of age were used in a comparative slaughter experiment with a 2 x 2 factorial arrangement with two concentrate levels, 80 and 20%, and two energetic ingredients in the concentrate, corn grain or pelletized citrus pulp. Four animals were slaughtered after the adaptation period for the determination of the initial body composition of lot and those that received diets with 80 and 20% of […]

This study aimed to evaluate impact of stocking density on final productivity in the production of mirror common carp in fattening stage, during the summer. A completely randomized design with three treatments (1, .5, .33 fishes/m2) and three replicates was used. The fish were stocked with an average weight of 2.40 g and average length of 5.35, 5.40 and 5.39 cm, respectively, in the treatments 1, 2 and 3, with 45 days of age. The diets were formulated with 27% […]

Forty-eight crossbreed beef cattle were used to evaluate four commercial mineral supplements: Treatment A- Salt + protein without urea (20% crude protein); B – salt + protein with urea (52,5 % crude protein), C) mineralized salt; D) mineralized salt with urea (91% crude protein). The animals were distributed into 24 plots of Braquiaria decubens grass, with supplementation of (10.5 kg/an/day) of sugar cane, during 112 days, with 28 days of adaptation and 84 days of data collection. The animals were […]

Two experiments were carried out to determine the total lysine requirement of purebred Landrace swine, males and females, from 15 to 30 kg live weights. Fifty females and fifty males were used in a randomized complete block design, with five treatments, five replications and two animals per experimental unit, in the experiments I and II, respectively. The treatments consisted of a basal diet, supplemented with five levels of L-lysine.HCL, resulting in diets with .85, .95, 1.05, 1.15, 1.25% of total […]

With the objective to evaluate the effect of dietetic starch on the nutrients apparent digestibility for rabbits in the growing phase, four experimental diets were formulated to contain increasing corn starch levels (23, 28, 33 and 38% total starch levels in dry matter [DM] basis). A total of 20 White New Zealand rabbits were allotted to metabolism cages in a completely randomized design. The results showed a crescent linear effect for the coefficients of apparent digestibility for DM, organic matter […]

Experiments were carried out to determine the digestibility (Experiment 1) and the effect of the inclusion of cassava leaf meal (CLM) with and without the addition of multi-enzyme complexes (MEC) in male broiler diets (Experiment 2) of the Hubbard strain. The MECs used were made up of Energex (b-glucanase, pectinase, hemicellulose) and Bio-Feed Alpha (b-glucanase, amylase). In Experiment 1, birds with 21 days of age were used, with the level of inclusion of 0 – 41.67% of CLM to determine […]

This work, evaluated by means of an economically simulation, the beef production systems with heifers calving by first time at two (“one year” system), three (“two years” system) and four (“traditional” system) years old. In “one year” system, the female calves had three different nutritional systems during 100 days, after weaning in the first autumn/winter, constituted by one of the alternatives: a) continuous grazing on cultivated annual ryegrass – PAST; b) continuous grazing on natural pasture plus diet – CNR; […]

Records of 4595 lactations from 2254 cows, daughters of 145 sires and 1,618 dams of the Gyr breed, assigned to 18 herds, with calving from 1980 to 1997 were used to study the viability of using production from projected partial lactations, on the evaluation. From 91, 151, 211 or 241 days of lactation, 10, 30, 50 or 70% of the lactations were projected, for the duration of the observed lactation and 305 days of lactation. The estimates of genetic parameters […]

ABSTRACT – The objective of this work was to evaluate the computerised monitoring of the in vitro gas production system and to compare with in vivo and in situ methods. In the degradation methods, corn silage samples with high/low dry matter (DM) contents, with/without inoculate, were used. Evaluating the silage degradation, by the gas production on the fermentation, the results of the extension of degradation (A+D) were 21.5; 22.6; 22.1 and 20.9 mL of gas/100 mg DM, without significant difference. […]