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Scientia Agricola
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| País: |
Brazil
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| Título: |
Feedlot performance, feeding behavior and rumen morphometrics of Nellore cattle submitted to different feeding frequencies
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| Autores: |
Silva,Juliana da
Carrara,Tássia Veluma Barbosa
Pereira,Murillo Ceola Stefano
Oliveira,Cassiele Aparecida de
Batista Júnior,Ivan Carlos
Watanabe,Daniel Hideki Mariano
Rigueiro,André Luiz Nagatani
Arrigoni,Mário De Beni
Millen,Danilo Domingues
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| Data: |
2018-04-01
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| Ano: |
2018
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| Palavras-chave: |
Zebu
Carcass
Concentrate
Intake
Papillae
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ABSTRACT: Owing to the lack of information in the literature about the ideal feeding frequency adopted by feedlot systems, this study was designed to evaluate the effect of different feeding frequencies on performance, carcass traits, feeding behavior and rumen morphometrics of Nellore cattle. Forty-eight yearling bulls were housed in individual pens with an average initial body weight of 358.2 kg. The experiment was designed as a completely randomized block and the treatments were the feeding of cattle one, two, three, or four times daily (n = 12 per treatment). Orthogonal contrasts were used to assess linear, quadratic and cubic relationship between feeding frequency and the dependent variable. As feeding frequency increased, final body weight (p = 0.03) and average daily gain (p = 0.01; one: 0.98 kg d–1; two: 0.96 kg d–1; three: 1.18 kg d–1; four: 1.14 kg d–1) increased linearly and the feed:gain ratio decreased (p = 0.02). Also, as feeding frequency increased, hot carcass weight was affected cubically (p = 0.01; one: 246.9 kg; two: 243.0 kg; three: 263.1 kg; four: 258.1 kg). During the adaptation period dry matter intake variation was affected cubically (p ≤ 0.05; one: 16 %; two: 23 %; three: 14 %; four: 16 %). Increases in feeding frequency affected papillae height (p < 0.01) and papillae surface area (p < 0.01) cubically, as well as producing increases in the mitotic index (p = 0.05; one: 9 %; two: 11 %; three: 13 %; four: 13 %) and cells in proliferation (p = 0.05) linearly. Thus, Nellore yearling bulls should be fed three times daily in feedlot operations.
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Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-90162018000200121
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| Editor: |
São Paulo - Escola Superior de Agricultura "Luiz de Queiroz"
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| Relação: |
10.1590/1678-992x-2016-0335
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| Fonte: |
Scientia Agricola v.75 n.2 2018
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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