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| Provedor de dados: |
R. Bras. Zootec.
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| País: |
Brazil
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| Título: |
Energy nutritional requirements for females of Nellore, Nellore × Angus and Nellore × Simmental fed on two forage: concentrate ratios
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| Autores: |
Souza,Evaristo Jorge Oliveira de
Valadares Filho,Sebastião de Campos
Guim,Adriana
Valadares,Rilene Ferreira Diniz
Marcondes,Marcos Inácio
Véras,Antonia Sherlânea Chaves
Amaral,Paloma de Melo
Santos,Tathyane Ramalho
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| Data: |
2012-03-01
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| Ano: |
2012
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| Palavras-chave: |
Crossbred heifers
Maintenance
Metabolizable energy
Net energy
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| Resumo: |
The objective of this study was to determine the energy nutritional requirements for females of Nellore, Nellore × Angus and Nellore × Simmental fed on two levels of concentrate. Sixty heifers from three genetic groups were used: 20 Nellore, 20 Nellore × Angus and 20 Nellore × Simmental. Twelve belonged to the reference group (four of each genetic group) and were slaughtered at the beginning of the experiment. Another 12 heifers (four of each genetic group) were fed on the maintenance level and 36 heifers (12 animals of each genetic group) were kept in feeding system ad libitum with 30 (six in each group) or 50% (six of each group) dry matter concentrate. Animals were randomly assigned to six treatments in a 3 × 2 factorial arrangement (three genetic groups and two diets) with six replicates per treatment. Nine more heifers were used in a parallel experiment to estimate the apparent digestibility coefficients (three from each genetic group). Net energy requirements were estimated by the equation of retained energy as a function of metabolic empty body weight (EBW0.75) and empty body weight gain (EBWg). Requirements of metabolizable and net energy were estimated for maintenance by the equation of heat production as a function of metabolizable energy intake. Using the combined equation RE (retained energy; Mcal/day) = 0.0703 × EBW.75 × EBWg1.128 to predict net energy requirements for weight gain is recommended. The requirement of metabolizable and net energy for maintenance of all groups is 70.55 and 106.53 kcal/kgEBW0.75/day, respectively. Use efficiencies of metabolizable energy for gain and maintenance are 36.41 and 66.23%, for the three genetic groups respectively.
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| Tipo: |
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=S1516-35982012000300039
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| Editor: |
Sociedade Brasileira de Zootecnia
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| Relação: |
10.1590/S1516-35982012000300039
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| Formato: |
text/html
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| Fonte: |
Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia v.41 n.3 2012
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| Direitos: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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