Sixty-five crossbred sows (Landrace x Large White) averaging 217.36 ± 21.35 kg were used to evaluate increasing dietary total lysine levels (0.950, 1.025, 1.100, 1.175, and 1.250%) during 21 days of lactation. The experiment was analyzed as a randomized block design, with five treatments, 13 replicates of one sow per experimental unit. The daily total feed intake was fixed for all treatments. The dietary lysine levels did not affect sow weight at weaning, body weight loss, backfat thickness (BT), BT […]

The effect of different methionine + cystine (Met+Cis):total lysine (Lis) ratios on performance and egg quality for semi-heavily laying hens was evaluated. One hundred and twenty Lohmann Brown hens with 44 weeks old were allotted to a completely randomized design with with five replicates and four treatments, as follows: T1= 0.76 Met+Cys:total Lys ratio or 0.70% of Met+Cys and 0.92% of total Lys; T2 = 0.83 Met+Cys: total Lis ratio or 0.71% of Met+Cys and 0.85% of total Lys; T3 […]

An experiment was carried out as a completely randomized design, with seven treatments, and six replicates of six birds to determine the lysine nutritional requeriments for 252 semi-heavy laying hens. The diets were formulated to be isonitrogenous (17.1%CP) and isoenergy (2,800 kcal/kg-ME) and to meet all bird nutrient requeriments, with the exception of lysine, that was supplemented with L-lysine • HCl (78.4% of lysine) and resulted in the following levels: 0.79, 0.83, 0.87, 0.91, 0.95, 0.99, and 1.03% of total […]

This experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of calcium levels and particle sizes of limestone on egg production. Six hundred Lohman LSL laying hens were randomly assigned to 10 treatments: two particle sizes of limestone (DGM = 0.135 mm and 0.899 mm) combined with five dietary calcium levels (0.60, 0.75, 0.90, 1.05, and 1.20% Ca), supplemented with phytase (500 FTU/kg). This experiment was analyzed as a 2 x 5 factorial arrangement with five replicates, with 12 hens per experiment […]

The effects of feeding increasing dietary organic acids on performance and diahrrea incidencefor piglets from 21 to 49 days old were evaluated. The treatments were constituted of a basal diet and three groups supplemented with 0.78, 0.84 and 0.90% of organic acids in the 21 to 35 days period and 0.59, 0.63 and 0.66% in the 36 to 49 days period, basedoin lactic acid. Average daily feed intake (ADFI), average daily weight gain (ADWG), feed:gain ratio (F/G) and diarrhea scores […]

The effect of different CP (20, 22, 24, and 26% of CP) and ME (2,565, 2,715, 2,865, and 3,015 kcal of ME/kg. ) levels on the performance of meat quails was evaluated. Seven hundred and sixty-eight European quails (Coturnix coturnix coturnix) of both sexes from 1 to 42 days of age were assigned to a completely randomized design with 4 x 4 factorial arrangement (protein x energy) and grouped into three clusters with 16 birds each. No significant interaction among […]

Two assays were conducted to evaluate the effects of feeding increasing dietary levels (1.5, 3.0, 4.5, and 6%) of soybean oil (SO) or animal fat (pork lard – AF) on nutrient apparent digestibility and performance for growing rabbits. In the digestibility assay, 72 NZB rabbits were assigned to a completely randomized design with nine treatments and eight replicates. No treatment effect on the coefficients of digestibility of DM, OM, CP GE or the DM ingestion was observed, however it was […]

The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of vitamin and micromineral levels adjustment in the test diet on the total collection method for determination of apparent metabolizable energy (EMA) and apparent metabolizable energy corrected by nitrogen retention (EMAn) of soybean meal. Two treatments were compared: the test diet without or with adjustments in the amounts of choline chloride and vitamin-micromineral premix, when 40% of the reference diet was replaced with soybean meal. The traditional total feces collection […]

The objectives of this study were to estimate phenotypic and genetic parameters for growth traits of meat quails. A total of 1022 birds were housed, identified and individually weighted at 7 days (PES7); 14 days (PES14); 28 days (PES28) and at 42 days (PES42). Covariance components and genetic parameters were estimated by Bayesian procedures using Gibbs sampling with MTGSAM software. Genetic correlations between PES7 and PES14, PES28, and PES42 were respectively 0.73, 0.52 and 0.55 and between PES14 and PES28 […]

Data from Hereford and Nelore breeds and their crosses were used to estimate the effect of genotype and environment interaction on weaning and yearling weights. The statistical analyses were performed by the least-squares method using models that included region, contemporary group within region, month of birth and sex of the calf, linear and quadratic effects of age of the calf and age of the cow, both nested within sex, and the genetic group and genetic group × region interaction effects. […]