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| Canesin,Roberta Carrilho; Berchielli,Telma Teresinha; Vega,Antonio de; Reis,Ricardo Andrade; Messana,Juliana Duarte; Baldi,Fernando; Páscoa,Adriano Gomes. |
| Reduced supplementation frequency is a broadly applied management practice. Ruminants consuming low quality forages/pastures, supplemented less than once daily are able to maintain body weight gain (BWG), efficiency of use of dry matter, nitrogen and other nutrients, as compared with animals supplemented once daily. We evaluated the feeding behavior, dry matter intake (DMI), dry matter and organic matter digestibility (DMD and OMD), BWG, Longissimus muscle area and backfat depth of Nellore steers raised on Brachiaria brizantha cv. Marandu pastures during the dry season, with different supplementation patterns. Thirty six animals (338 ± 40.7 kg) were distributed over nine paddocks according to a completely randomized design. Treatments were based on... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
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| Ano: 2014 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-90162014000200003 |
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