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| Sichonany, Maria José de Oliveira; Rocha, Marta Gomes da; Pötter, Luciana; Salvador, Paulo Roberto; Bergoli, Tuani Lopes; Moterle, Paulo Henrique. |
| A joint data analysis was performed to characterize forage intake rate and patterns of use of time by grazing heifers in cold season pastures. Heifers received or not energetic supplementation at different phenological stages of grasses (vegetative, pre-flowering and flowering). Experiments involved 360 heifers with initial age of eight months and average body weight of 145 ± 17 kg, on continuous grazing method and variable number of animals. Supplementaed heifers consumed 17.0% less forage and 22.2% less leaf blades than heifers exclusively on pasture. Grazing activity was concentrated in the afternoon shift, regardless of the feeding system and phenological stages evaluated, with the longest event of rumination during the night. Forage intake rate is... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: 5.04.05.00-4 phenological stages; Lolium multiflorum Lam.; Forage intake rate. |
| Ano: 2016 |
URL: http://periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/ActaSciAnimSci/article/view/30218 |
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