Supplementation levels for growing beef cattle grazing in the dry-rainy transition season.

The objective of this experiment was to study the effects of different levels of supplementation on the performance, intake, digestibility, pH and rumen ammonia concentration in growing bulls grazing Brachiaria decumbens Stapf. pasture, during the dry-rainy transition season. For evaluation of perfo...

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Autores: SALES, M. F. L., PAULINO, M. F., VALADARES FILHO, S. de C., FIGUEIREDO, D. M. de, PORTO, M. O., DETMANN, E.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2011
País:Brasil
Institución:Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa)
Repositorio:Repositório Institucional da EMBRAPA (Repository Open Access to Scientific Information from EMBRAPA - Alice)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:www.alice.cnptia.embrapa.br:doc/902545
Acceso en línea:http://www.alice.cnptia.embrapa.br/alice/handle/doc/902545
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Amônia ruminal
Rumen ammonia
Amoníaco ruminal
Dry-rainy transition season
Transição seca-águas
Nutrición animal
Ganado de carne
Digestibilidad
Desempeño del crecimiento
Cebú
Alimentación de ganado
Terneros
Suplementos dietéticos
Pastos forrajeros
Pastizales
Gado de corte
Gado Zebu
Novilho de corte
Nutrição animal
Ganho de peso
Suplemento alimentar
Pastagem
Gramínea forrageira
Capim Brachiaria
Brachiaria decumbens
Digestibilidade
Performance
Consumo alimentar
Ph
Amônia
Beef cattle
Zebu
Calves
Animal nutrition
Cattle feeding
Dietary supplements
Pastures
Forage grasses
Urochloa decumbens
Digestibility
Growth performance
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Sumario:The objective of this experiment was to study the effects of different levels of supplementation on the performance, intake, digestibility, pH and rumen ammonia concentration in growing bulls grazing Brachiaria decumbens Stapf. pasture, during the dry-rainy transition season. For evaluation of performance, intake and digestibility, it was used 25 non-castrated steers at 11 months of age and initial average body weight of 270 kg, grouped in five plots of five animals each, following a completely randomized design. Each plot received one of the following feeding treatments: mineral mixture and supplement at the proportion of 0.5, 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0 kg/animal/day, corresponding to 0.18, 0.36, 0.54 and 0.72% of the average body weight of the animals. The area designated for the animals was constituted of five 2.0-ha paddocks. For the evaluation of the pH and rumen ammonia concentration, five crossbred non-castrated steers were used, with average body weight of 240 kg, fistulated in the esophagus, rumen and abomasum, disposed in a 5 × 5 Latin square, with five treatments and five experimental periods. Animal performance behaved in a positive linear manner according to the supplementation levels, responding with an increase of more than 80% on weight gains of the animals. Intakes of total and pasture dry matter (DM), organic matter and neutral detergent fiber were not influenced by supplementation. Intakes of crude protein, nonfibrous carbohydrates, ether extract and total digestible nutrients as well as nutrient digestibility and rumen ammonia concentration showed a positive linear pattern in response to supplementation levels. Increasing levels of concentrate supplementation influence positively the performance of bulls growing on pastures during the dry-rainy transition season.