The experiment carried out in aiming to evaluate the tissue and chemical composition of longissimus dorsi muscle of Suffolk lambs fed on creep feeding system with ration containing 0.0, 6.60, 13.20 and 19.80% of sunflower seed. At kidding, the lambs were identified, weighed and randomly distributed to paddocks composing four replicates per ration, totaling 16 lambs. The rations contained 2.65, 2.78, 2.89 or 2.93 Mcal/kg of ME and 18.38, 18.75, 19.98 and 21.18% of CP and were ad libitum fed […]

The objective of this trial was to determine the effects of feeding diets containing citrus pulp on carcass characteristics and meat quality of feedlot lambs. Thirty-two Santa Ines lambs were distributed in a complete randomized block design according to body weight and age at the beginning of the performance trial. Lambs were fed diets containing 90% concentrate (corn and/or citrus pulp, soybean meal and minerals) and 10% coastcross hay (Cynodon spp). Citrus pulp was added at levels 23.7, 46.1 and […]

This study was carried out to evaluate the effect of cannula placement site and hour of collection on the botanical composition of sheep diet. Ten castrated sheep Santa Inês breed were used, with five of them using permanent ruminal cannula and the five others with esophageal cannula. Water and mineral mix were available ad libitum. Samples collected from both cannulas revealed 39 species with an average of 20 species occurring in each monthly sampling. In addition, other Poaceae species were […]

The objective was to evaluate in sheep the intake and apparent digestibility of nutrients diets containing finger millet grain (Eleusine coracana). Twenty lambs were used with average initial 18.90 kg BW, in a completely randomized design, with five diets and four replications. The animals were fed isoprotein diets formulated with 0.0, 16.0, 32.5, 48.0 e 67.0% of finger millet grain in substitution of corn meal, with 50:50 forage to concentrate ratio (%DM). The levels of finger millet grain did not […]

The effect of the addition of 0.0, 0.5, 1.0 and 1.5% of urea to dehydrated vineyards residue, associated to forage cactus palm in the feeding of goats on intake and nutrient digestibility was evaluated. Twenty-four castrated crossbred goats, without defined breed, with average 18 kg of BW were distributed to a randomized block design according to the body weight. The addition of increasing levels of urea to dehydrated vineyards residue increased intakes of dry matter (DM), organic matter (OM), crude […]

The aim of this paper was to evaluate and to publish the study on the evolution of the relation between the total amount of submitted proposals and the supported ones, into the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq)’s Animal Science Support Program subareas. The study was based on data from the last three Universal Calls (01/2002, 019/2004, and 02/2006) and evinced regional distribution of such variables. Data were obtained through CNPq’s Oracle® database, using PL-SQL search tool. From […]