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Provedor de dados: | 96
País: | Brazil
Título: | Animal production and canopy attributes of Cynodon pasture managed under continuous stocking with wethers at three levels of forage allowance
Autores: | Santos,Márcia Vendrúsculo dos; Kozloski,Gilberto Vilmar; Quadros,Fernando Luiz Ferreira de; Pires,Cleber Cassol; Wommer,Tatiana Pfüller; Mônego,Camila Ornelas.
Data: | 2012-01-01
Ano: | 2012
Palavras-chave: | Cynodon dactylon var. dactylon; Growth rate; Intake; Live weight gain; Sheep; Tropical grass.
Resumo: | The objective of the present experiment was to evaluate the effect of forage allowance (3, 6 or 9 kg of green leaves dry matter (DM)/100 kg of body weight (BW)) on both animal performance and attributes of Cynodon dactylon var.dactylon canopy managed under continuous stocking by wethers. The study was carried out with 27 Polwarth wethers throughout five 28-day periods, in a completely randomized experiment, which included three paddocks per treatment and three tester animals per paddock. Forage mass varied from 2878 to 6580 kg of DM/ha and was directly related to forage allowance. Leaves proportion (mean of 23%) and leaves growth rate (mean of 25 kg of DM/ha/day) varied between experimental periods in a similar rate for all treatments. Stocking rate varied from 652 to 2428 kg of LW/ha/day and was higher for the lowest forage allowance treatment. Individual BW gain (mean of 9.7 g/day) or gain per area (mean of 406 g/ha/day) were only affected by experimental periods. Forage intake was neither affected by treatments nor by periods (mean of 1042 g of DM/day). Cynodon dactylon var. dactylon pasture may be managed under continuous stocking by grazing wethers at forage allowances varying from 3 to 9 kg of green leaves dry matter/100 kg of BW without effects on canopy attributes or animal production.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-35982012000100026
Editor: | Sociedade Brasileira de Zootecnia
Relação: | 10.1590/S1516-35982012000100026
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia  v.41 n.1 2012
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess