Three blood constituents in eight crossbred Saanen goats bred in two systems ¾ pasture (S1) and semi-confinement (S2) ¾ were analyzed. The animals were fed two different diets: 30% of the dairy requirements of net energy supplied by concentrate during all the lactation (R1), and 60% of the requirements from 3rd to 13th week of lactation and 15% from 14th until the end of lactation (R2). Blood samples were taken to evaluate glucose (Gl), hemoglobin (Hb), and hematocrit (Ht) levels. […]

The experiment was conducted with the objective to evaluate the performance of feedlot finished calves, fed with silages of AG-5011 corn hybrid harvested with different cutting height: low cut (20 cm) and high cut (42 cm). Twelve Braford calves with an average age of seven months and average live weight of 209 kg, were used. The feedlot period was 126 days, divided in two periods of the 63 days. The roughage:concentrate ratio was 60:40 and 50:50 for the first and […]

The objective of this work was to study the effect of recombinant bovine somatotropin (bST) utilization on milk production from Murrah buffaloes. Twenty eight multiparous Murrah buffaloes were used and divided into two homogeneous groups of 14 animals, receiving the following treatments: Group 1 ¾ Control (salt solution) and Group 2 ¾ 500 mg of bST/head every 14 days during 7 months. Buffaloes treated with bST presented increase of 48.52%, 32.80% and 32.80% on total milk yield, adjusted to 4% […]

The experiment was run at the Agronomic Experimental Station of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, located in the district of Eldorado do Sul, Brazil. The objective of the study was to evaluate the effect of the date of early (01/05/99) or conventional (03/26/99) weaning on the reproductive performance of multiparous beef cows during two mating seasons, 98/99, and the subsequent, 99/00. Fifty cows had their calves weaned with an average age of 91 days old and a […]

Two experiments were conducted with the objective of evaluating the use of high- moisture corn silage for growing horses. In the first experiment 12 male foals, 11 months old, with live weigth of 232.17±10.22 kg, were used in a digestibility trial to determine nutritional feeding value of high moisture corn silage. Two diets were used, a reference diet and one test diet, in which high- moisture corn silage replaced 25% of reference diet on dry matter basis. Total feces collection […]

The objective of this study was to determine the protein requirement for broiler breeder hens using factorial method. The requirement of crude protein for maintenance (CPm) was determined using nitrogen balance technique in metabolism assay. The birds were fed with four protein levels in order to get a positive, a close to zero and a negative nitrogen balance. To determine the crude protein weight gain requirement (CPg), two experiments were carried out. The first was calculate to determine the net […]

The objective of this study was to evaluated a crude protein requirement equation elaborated for broiler breeders. The experiment was conducted with 600 31-weeks old Hubbard HI-Y broiler breeders in a completely randomized experiment with three treatments and five replications. The treatments were: T1- Crude protein supply according to lineage recommendation manual (control), T2 ¾ Crude protein supply according to a prediction equation adjusted in function of the performance data of the standard treatment, and T3 ¾ Crude protein supply […]

The work was carried out at the Equine Production Sector of the Department of Animal Science of the Federal University of Lavras – UFLA, in Lavras – MG, Brazil, with the objective of evaluating the effect of pectin and soybean meal addition on the apparent digestibility of nutrients in horses. The experimental design was completely randomized in a 4×2 factorial arrangement, with four pectin levels (0, 1, 2 and 3% of the DM of the hay of coastcross consumed) and […]

Two experiments (E) were conducted, using 204 Large White piglets (E1: from 7.23 to 12.32 kg; and E2: from 12.64 to 23.81 kg). A randomized block design was used, with four levels of threonine in the ration (E1: 0.80; 087; 0.93 e 0.99%; e E2: 0.69; 0.74; 0.80 e 0.85 %); eight (E1) and nine (E2) replicates for daily intake (DI), daily weight gain (DWG), adjusted daily weight gain (ADWG) and feed conversion (FC) and five replicates for plasma urea […]

The objective of the present study was to evaluate the nutrients apparent digestibilities in growing rabbits fed diets with different starch levels (22 or 32% on average) by high or low inclusion of corn grain and different fiber sources (alfalfa hay or soybean hulls), in 2×2 factorial outline. The diets were pelleted and supplied to 64 New Zealand White rabbits (16 replicates per treatment), weaned at 34 days, housed individually in metabolism cages and allotted to a complete randomized design. […]