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Provedor de dados: | 86
País: | Brazil
Título: | Performance of crossbred steers post-weaned in an integrated crop-livestock system and finished in a feedlot
Autores: | Costa,Patrícia Monteiro; Barbosa,Fabiano Alvim; Alvarenga,Ramon Costa; Guimarães,Sérgio Teixeira; Lampeão,Ângelo André; Winkelströter,Larissa Kretli; Maciel,Isabella Cristina de Faria.
Data: | 2017-05-01
Ano: | 2017
Palavras-chave: | Beef cattle; Crossbreeding; Feed intake; Integrated systems; Intensification.
Resumo: | Abstract: The objective of this work was to evaluate the performance of crossbred steers post-weaned in an integrated crop-livestock system (ICL) and finished in a feedlot, fed either a high-level concentrate diet or whole corn with no roughage. Weaned calves of two breed groups - ½ Angus × ½ Nellore, and ½ Charolais × ¼ Angus × ¼ Nellore - were allotted in a completely randomized experimental design (CRD). During the rainy season, the ½ Angus × ½ Nellore animals showed a higher performance than the ½ Charolais × ¼ Angus ×¼ Nellore ones, with 0.748 and 0.490 kg average daily gain, respectively. The productivity in the post-weaning period was 926 kg ha-1 body weight in a 11-month period, in the ICL system. Subsequently, the animals were confined and fed high-concentrate diet or whole corn with no roughage, in a CRD with a 2×2 factorial arrangement. In the feedlot, the ½ Charolais × ¼ Angus × ¼ Nellore animals showed lower values for carcass average daily gain, carcass yield, and slaughter weight than the ½ Angus × ½ Nellore animals. The high productivity in the ICL shows that this strategy, associated with the use of crossbreeding during the post-weaning and finishing stages, can be indicated for the new demand for a sustainable livestock activity.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-204X2017000500355

Editor:

Embrapa Secretaria de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento

Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira

Relação: | 10.1590/s0100-204x2017000500009
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira  v.52 n.5 2017
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess