The relationship between milk somatic cells count (SCC) and milk yield has been the aim of countless researches in several countries; however, in Brazil, the literature related to this subject is scarce. Therefore, the objective of this study is to verify if the losses in milk yield due to SCC increase are proportional to the yield, or absolute (independent of it) and starting from which SCC, the losses become evident. For this study, 13.725 observations were used, collected monthly from […]

To obtain the adequate slaughter weights and costs of production of young bulls, a feedlot study was conducted at Embrapa Pecuaria Sudeste, with 234 crossbred Blonde d´Aquitaine x Nellore (BN); Canchim x Nellore (CN); Limousin x Nellore (LN); Piedmontese x Nellore (PN); and straightbred Canchim (CA) and Nellore (NE) in 1994, 1995 and 1997. At the beggining of the experiment, the animals had 12 months of age and the BN, CA, CN, LN weighed 265 kg, the NE 214 kg […]

To obtain slaughter weight and age and the carcass characteristics of young bulls, a feedlot study was conducted at Embrapa Pecuária Sudeste. A total of 215 animals from Embrapa and private farms, 3/8 and ½ Blonde d´Aquitaine x Nellore; ½ Canchim x Nellore; ½ Limousin x Nellore; ½ Piedmontese x Nellore; Canchim (CA) and Nellore (NE), were used in 1994, 1995 and 1997. The slaughter weights (TRAT) of 400 (I); 440 (II) and 480 kg (III), except for NE cattle […]

The reproductive and productive behaviour of Santa Inês ewes were evaluated as a function of supplementation in different stages of pregnancy, where NS = pasture during the day and cassava bagasse during the night over the breeding season and pregnancy, S46 = NS plus supplement (soybean hulls) from the 46th day after the beginning of the breeding season until the birth and S100 = NS plus supplement (soybean hulls) from the 100th day after the beginning of the breeding season […]

A study was conducted to determine the effect of environmental stress on physiological criteria of feedlot sheep. Treatments consisted of two different housing conditions (shade and no shade) and two levels of concentrate in the diet: high concentrate (70% of concentrate and 30% of roughage-70C:30R); low concentrate (30% of concentrate and 70% of roughage-30C:70R). Animals raised under shade and fed a high concentrate diet (70C:30R) had greater dry mater intake (1258 g/animal/day) and crude protein (0.8% of body weight (BW) […]

The goal of this experiment was to evaluate if biostimulation may favourably change the reproductive performance of beef heifers on their first breeding season. For this purpose, 50 days before the artificial insemination (AI) period, 60 two-year-old heifers (Hereford x Nelore) were randomly distributed into two treatment groups: biostimulatated (BE) using a ruffian or not biostimulated (NE). The rates of cycling heifers before AI were 76 and 56% for BE e NE, respectively. Conception rates were 90 and 73% for […]

The research was carried out to evaluate the performance of kids submitting of different periods of suckling. Forty-two Alpine goats crossbred (21 males and 21 females) were assigned to three treatments with 14 replicates: T1 weaning at 56; T2 weaning at the 70 and T3 weaning at the 84 days old. The liquid diet (goat milk) was fed up to 35 days old, in two suckling and, after, the animals received the same quantity of goat milk at one suckling, […]

The objective of the experiment was to evaluate the performance of Charolais (CH) and ½Nellore (NE) ½CH (produced by CH cows), NE and ½CH ½NE (produced by NE cows) calves, mantained with the cows until weaning, on native pasture (NP) or winter (oat + italian rye grass) and summer (alexander grass) cultivated pasture (CP). Sixty straigthbred or crossbreds calves were used, and weighted at birth; 14; 42; 70; 98; 126; 154; 182 days; and at weaning. The cows milk yield […]

The experiment was carried out to determine the supplements effects in the voluntary intake, digestibility, rumen pH and ammonia content of five 18 months old and 286 kg of live weight Nelore-Limousin young bulls, that received rumen and esophageal fistula. The treatments were: control, the animals received only mineral complex; and the others four were constituted by 1,49% of mineral complex, 1,99% of urea, and cracked corn, soybean meal and wheat bran different percentages. The treatments had 24% average crude […]

The experiment was carried out to study the effects of fiber levels (38.7 and 57.2% NDF), composed of elephantgrass silage and chopped sugarcane and two protein sources, a high (soybean meal) and low (blood meal and corn glúten meal) ruminal degradable protein, on the ammonia nitrogen concentration (N-NH3) and on the ruminal pH of steers. Four rumen fistulated Brow-Swiss steers, with 316 kg of average initial weight, were randomly allotted to a 4 x 4 Latin square design. The steers […]