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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. |
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)... |
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Zebu; Carcass; Concentrate; Intake; Papillae. |
Ano: 2018 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-90162018000200121 |
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