This experiment was carried out to evaluate the effect of sex and parturition type (simple or double) on live weight, body length, thoracic diameter at birth and at weaning of agouti, as well as total weight gain and daily mean weight gain, to obtain subsidies that contribute to preservation and rational exploration of these animals. Fourty-one animals (26 males and 15 females) were allotted to a completely randomized a design. Animal weight, thoracic diameter and body length of agouti at […]

The feedlot performance of Aberdeen Angus (AA) and Hereford (HE) steers submitted to two energy levels, in a 2 x 2 factorial scheme, being the lower level of 3.07 (12% of concentrate in the diet) and the higher of 3.18 Mcal of digestible energy/kg of DM (32% of concentrate in the diet), was evaluated. Eight steers of each breed were used, with nine months of age and average initial weight of 220.31 kg. The animals were confined until the estimated […]

An experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of dietary energy level on performance, carcass yield and abdominal fat of broiler chickens. Two thousand and four hundred day-old Ross 308 chicks were raised until 42 days of age in floor pens. The experimental design was a completly randomized in a 6 x 2 factorial design (energy x sex). The treatment was consisted of combinated levels of energy: 2900, 2960, 3020, 3080, 3140 and 3200 kcal/kg ME and sex, with four […]

The experiment was conducted to evaluate protein sources and levels in the initial diets, for piglets weaned at 21 days of age. The animals were allotted in a completely randomized design in a factorial 2 x 2 x 2, with type of diets ( dried whey and fish meal + lactose), levels of crude protein (20 and 24%) and piglet weight at weaning (<6,0 and > 6,0kg), in a total of 8 treatments and four replications each. In the experimental […]

One experiment was conducted to study the effect of the substitution of dry skim milk for isolated soybean protein in diets of piglets from 21 to 35 days of age. It was used 80 piglets in a experimental design involved 5 treatments, 4 blocks of 4 animals each in a total of 16 piglets per treatment. The treatments constituted the levels of substitution (0%, 25%, 50%, 75% and 100%) of the protein furnished by dry skim milk for isolated soybean […]

To estimate nutrient and energy digestion with animal from in vitro variables it is necessary to control factors that may interfere on digestion such as: source and concentration of digestor substance, as well as the origin and processing of test ingredients. In this study there were performed five laboratory assays, two with poultry and finally regression equations were established based on variables generated with twelve vegetable ingredients. The results showed that there is greater solubility of proteins with NaOH than […]

Fifteen crossbred cows (Holstein-Zebu) from EPAMIG-Leopoldina Experimental Farm with an average weight of 511.8 kg were allocated into an experiment in a complete randommized design, in four treatments, with four animals in the treatments 1, 2, and 4 and three in the treatment 3. The treatments were cosntituted of diets with corn silage and concentrate (60:40) and were fed individually and ad libitum and their contents in percentage of urea were: T1=0.0; T2= 0.7; T3= 1.4 and T4=2.1 corresponding to […]

In order to study the influence of the economic factor on the objectives used to select the animals, production data of a payment program by milk quality implanted by a milk industry of Rio Grande do Sul were used. The criteria of quality of the referred program consisted of minimum contents of 3.1% of fat, 2.85% of protein and a maximum 500,000 units of somatic cells. The data were stratified in three levels, in agreement with the volume of milk […]

The research was carried out in a greenhouse, at the UFRPE, from October 2000 to May, 2001. The objective was to evaluate the effect of phosphatic fertilization and harvest systems on the chemical composition and in vitro digestibility of the “capim-de-raiz” (Chloris orthonoton Doell). The treatments was obted in a factorial arrangement 3 x 2 x 2, with three rates of phosphorus fertilizer (0, 100 and 200 kg ha-1 of P2O5), two cut frequencies (30 and 40 days) and two […]

Part of the fertilizer nitrogen (N) applied to pasture may be lost from the system and, in tropical pastures, the volatilization of ammonia (NH3) is one of the major pathways of loss. The present study aimed to estimate the NH3-N volatilization loss in Panicum maximum cv. Tanzania pasture fertilized with urea during the summer. A completely randomized design, following a repeated measure arrangement, with three replicates was used. The plots were represented by urea levels (40, 80 and 120 kg/ha […]