The experiment was conducted to evaluate the performance of 47 Bos taurus x Bos indicus beef heifers until two years of age. Heifers were early weaned (EW) with average age of 91 days and minimum of 70 kg of liveweight or weaned at conventional age with average of 170 days and average liveweight of 130.3 kg (CW), supplemented (Su) or not (NSu) with concentrate containing 14% crude protein and 75% total digestible nutrients (TDN) during 91 days in the first […]

The work was carried out to evaluate the voluntary intake, feed conversion and weight gain of bovines in feedlot, fed with elephantgrass silage (Penisetum purpereum, Schum.) with and without acipin associated with two protein sources, and to evaluate also the digestibility of dry matter of elephantgrass silage. The experimental feedlot was conducted during 167 days, with 28 steers, average 24 months old and initial average live weight of 310 kg. Four rations (T1: silage with acipin and urea; T2: silage […]

An experiment was conducted to evaluate the rearing of beef heifers with different levels of wheat bran supplementation, on oat (Avena strigosa Schreb) + annual ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum Lam) pasture. One hundred nine Charolais and Charolais crossbreed Nellore heifers, with initial weight (LW) of 158 kg, were used. The supplementation levels were: SS – animals fed oat + annual ryegrass without supplementation; S 0.5 – animals fed 0.5% of LW/day of supplementation; S 1.0 – animals fed 1.0% LW/day of […]

This work was conducted with the aim to evaluate the influence of weaning age at 100 (EW) or 180 (CW) days old on the growth of Braford heifers until approximately 18 months old. The calves of EW were daily supplemented during 63 days, at quantity of 1% of their live weight, with a comercial ration with 18% of crude protein and 74% of total digestible nutrients. Average daily gain from birth to 205 days (G205), from this one until 365 […]

The effect of feeding systems on performance of beef heifers, on period of eight to 18/20 months of age. Charolais heifers and their crosses with Nellore were evaluated. The feeding systems were: ‘Oat + Annual ryegrass + Pearl millet’- Black oat (Avena strigosa Schreb) and Annual ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum Lam) and Pearl millet (Pennisetum americanum (L.) Leeke) pasture; ‘Oat + Annual ryegrass + natural pasture’- Black oat and annual ryegrass and natural pasture with Annoni grass (Eragrostis planna Nees); ‘Oat […]

The performance of steers fed diets using as roughage rice straw treated with anydrous ammonia, rice straw+urea, sugar cane + urea and sorghum silage were evaluated. Sixteen PO Simental steers, averaging 400 kg initial LW, were assigned to a completely randomized design. The experiment last 88 days, 15 days of adaptation and 61 experimental days, divided in three periods of 21 days. Total DM intake, that ranged from 7.1 to 10.0 kg/day, differ among treatments, where higher intakes were observed […]

The aim of this work was evaluate the effect of supplementation with different energetic sources, on growing steers performance and economical viability, and also evaluate the structure and chemical composition of Signalgrass (Brachiaria decumbens) from July to November, on São Paulo state west region. Forty-two animals (Nelore) and three pastures of 7.2 ha each, were used. The energy sources used for supplements were: corn and cob with husks (CCH), cassava meal (CM) and soybean hulls (SH); each treatment had cottonseed […]

Many problems of the beef herd, including low pregnancy rates and low weaning weights, are related to inadequate intakes of energy and /or protein, as well as to minerals and vitamins deficiencies. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the performance of beef cows supplemented with phosphorus/calcium with or without energy/protein during the dry season. All cows received complete mineral mixtures during the wet season; during the dry season, the imposed treatments were: complete mineral mixtures or mineral […]

The objetives of this research were to detect how many days were necessary to animals adapt to the diets, by measuring intake; to evaluate the effect of crescent levels of wheat middlings as a replacement for corn meal in the diets on the milk production and composition, the intake and apparent digestibilities of dry matter (DM), organic matter (OM), neutral detergent fiber (NDF), ether extract (EE), total carbohydrates (TC), crude protein (CP), intake of total digestible nutrient (TDN) and non […]

Four levels of coffee hulls (0.0, 6.25, 12.5, 18.75 and 25.0% DM) in substitution of ground corn in their concentrate ration were used to evaluate the effects on intake and apparent digestibility of diets. Twenty, unknown breed, sheeps were used in a randomized block design, with five treatments and four replicates. The animals were fed all ad libitum with isoprotein diets, 10% crude protein (CP), contained 60% of coastcross hay and 40% of concentrate in dry matter basis. Sheep were […]