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Provedor de dados: | Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia
País: | Brazil
Título: | Influence of supplying bullfrog tadpoles with feed containing 28% crude protein on performance and enzymatic activities
Autores: | Seixas Filho,José Teixeira de; Oliveira,Maria Goreti Almeida; Moura,Guilherme de Souza; Lanna,Eduardo Arruda Teixeira; Garcia,Silvana Lages Ribeiro; Lima,Jorge Luiz Pereira.
Data: | 2010-01-01
Ano: | 2010
Palavras-chave: | Digestive enzyme; Digestive physiology; Frog farming; Nutrition; Performance.
Resumo: | The objective of this study was evaluate the influence of feeding bullfrog tadpoles on commercial feed containing 28% crude protein (CP), on their digestive enzyme performance and activities. The experiment lasted 60 days, at the density of one tadpole/L in boxes containing 30 L water. A hundred and twenty tadpoles at the 25 Gosner stage averaging weight and length was 0.046 g and 6.22 mm, respectively, were used. Survival rate, length, final weight, weight gain, feed consumption, apparent food conversion, specific growth rate and activities of chime, amylase, lipase and trypisin were the parameters evaluated, biweekly, in five biometries. Quadratic effect was observed for the length and the weight. There was larger growth of the tadpoles from the 15th to the 45th day (19.82 mm). On the 15th day, the tadpoles presented the largest specific growth rate (16.93%/day), and the largest weight gain (5.460 g), feed intake (14.099 g) and the best apparent food conversion (2.46) was from the 45th to the 60th day. The specific activity of amylase was 205 times greater at 60 days when compared to the beginning of the experiment. The results demonstrated that, for the three enzymes studied, the action capacity over the tadpole chime increased significantly after the 30th experimental day. Moreover, they suggested a greater capacity of tadpoles to digest carbohydrates in detriment to proteins, and this fact was accentuated in the initial phase of the exogenous feeding of this amphibian. The commercial feed with 28% CP provide good performance in the bullfrog tadpoles, indicating the juvenile formation within commercial bullfrog farming standards.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-35982010000100002
Editor: | Sociedade Brasileira de Zootecnia
Relação: | 10.1590/S1516-35982010000100002
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia  v.39 n.1 2010
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess