The objective of this experiment was to evaluate the fermentative quality of sorghum silage of small, medium and high size with different stem+leafs/head proportions (100:00, 80:20, 60:40, 40:60, 20:80, 00:100), by means of lab analysis. The whole plant was used as control. The hybrids were cultivated and ensiled at 104 days of age in PVC lab silos measuring 10-cm of diameter by 40-cm of length (three replications per treatment). Silos were opened 56 days after the ensilage. The contents of […]

The objective of this work was to calculate correction factors for the effects of age of the dam (AOD), age of the calf (AOC) and Julian birth date (DOB) on the average daily gain (ADG) from birth to weaning period of animals of Nellore breed. The data were analyzed by restricted maximum likelihood, using the animal model. The model included the fixed effects of contemporary group (CG), AOD, AOC and DOB, and the direct effects (animal), maternal, permanent environmental and […]

The objective of this work was to evaluate the effects of different forage levels in the diet on the body composition, net energy for maintenance and weight gain and net protein requirements for weight gain. Fifty-two pure Holstein bulls calves; 60 days old with initial average live weight (LW) of 78 kg were used. Eight reference animals were slaughtered at the beginning of the feeding trial. Another group of eight animals were fed diet with 90% of forage and 10% […]

This work was conducted aiming to evaluate the effect of dietary energy level and the previous heat exposure on the respiratory activity of the mitochondria from the cardiac muscle of broiler chickens. It was used broiler chickens (Hubbard) from both sexes and fed with diet containing 2900 kcal ME/kg or 3200 kcal ME/kg. The birds were heat stressed (35oC/4h) in the 1st, 21st and 42nd days of age. The respiratory activity of mitochondria from cardiac muscle was evaluated in a […]

The objective of this experiment was to determine the threonine requirement for broilers in the period from 22 to 42 days of age. Nine hundred and sixty broilers were random allotted in a 6×2 factorial arrangement, with six total threonine levels ( .67, .71, .75, .79, .83, e .87%) two sexes with five replicates with 16 birds each. The feed intake, weight gain, feed:gain ratio, plasma uric acid concentration, yields of carcass, special cuts and abdominal fat, and body composition […]

This work was to evaluate the effects of different forage levels in the diet on the efficiency of metabolizable energy (ME) utilization for maintenance and weight gain, and the requirements of ME, total digestible nutrients (TDN) and metabolizable protein (MP). Forty-four pure Holstein bulls calves, 60 days old with initial average live weight (LW) of 78 kg were used. Eight reference animals were slaughtered at the beginning of the feeding trial. The remaining 36 animals were allotted in the treatments […]

This assay was conducted with sheep to evaluate in vivo digestibility of the dry matter and fiber fraction of broiler litters based on wood scraps, elephant grass Napier, corncob with husks and the aerial part of cassava. A completely randomized blocks experimental design with four treatments and five blocks with four sheep, considering the live weight of the animals, were used. Twenty Morada Nova sheep, white variety, with 18 months of age and live weight from 17.2 to 27.3 kg […]

The objective of this experiment was to determine the digestible lysine requirement for male broilers in the period from 22 to 42 days. Four hundred and sixty male broilers Hubbard, with an initial average weight of 631 g, were allotted in a randomized block experimental design with five treatments, six replicates and 15 birds by experimental unit. The treatments corresponded to five L-lysine levels supplemented to a basal diet with 19,64% of crude protein and 3100 kcal of ME/Kg resulting […]

The objective of this work was to evaluate the effects of previous and present days open and previous dry days period fitted simultaneously as fixed effects using a sire model for 305-day milk production, still containing the fixed effects of herd-year-season, genetic group, age of cow and the random effects of sire and cow. An additive relationship matrix that included the bull, its sire and its mother was used. The same model with the exclusion of the age of cow […]

The objectives of this work was to evaluate possible changes in the morphological measurements among genetic groups (GG) Indubrazil, Nellore and Tabapuan and among the GG of their daughters F1 Holstein x Indubrazil (HxI), Holstein x Nellore (HxN) e Holstein x Tabapuan (HxT), besides the heritability estimates coefficients (h2) for these traits. Least square method was used to verify the differences on the morphological traits among GG and to obtain h2 estimates from dam-daughter regression (RFM). The REML method was […]