The objective of this work was to evaluate the effect of slaughter body weight on the quantitative characteristics of carcasses and the yield of commercial cuts of young Nellore bulls. Twenty-four non-castrated, 11-month-old, feedlot-fed Nellore bulls were distributed in a completely randomized design, in three treatments: 350 kg, 400 kg or 450 kg of body weight at slaughter (SBW). Slaughter was performed in a ...
The objective of this study was to investigate the fermentative and nutritional characteristics of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) vine silage using different levels of corn meal as additive. A completely randomized design consisting of seven levels of the additive (0, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30% corn meal) and four replicates was used, totaling 28 laboratory mini-silos (experimental units). The different levels o...
Este ensaio foi realizado com o objetivo de avaliar a biomassa e a densidade volumétrica de forragem, o desempenho e a taxa de lotação de ovinos em pastos de capim Tifton 85 adubados com nitrogênio e submetidos ao regime de lotação contínua. Foram avaliadas quatro doses de nitrogênio (0, 100, 200 e 400 kg ha-1 ano), em delineamento experimental de blocos casualizados com quatro repetições. Utilizaram-se 16 piqu...
O efeito da maturação nas características físicas (pH, cor, perda de peso na cozedura e força de cisalhamento) e biológico (microbiologia, no que se refere aos mesófilos e psicrotrófilos e comprimento do sarcômero) do músculo Longissimus thoracic lumborum do gado Nelore adulto foi avaliado durante quatro períodos de maturação (0, 7, 14 e 21 dias) e duas espessuras de corte (2,5 e 7,5 cm). Foram adquiridos 64 mú...
Registros de animais da raça Large White foram usados para estimar componentes de variância, parâmetros e tendências genéticas para a característica número total de leitões nascidos (NLT) como medida do tamanho de leitegada. Na obtenção dos componentes de variância e parâmetros genéticos, foi utilizado o método da Máxima Verossimilhança Restrita, por meio do programa MTDFREML. Foram avaliados dois modelos misto...
Records on 288 meat type quails (Coturnix coturnix coturnix) were used to identify independent and informative variables by eliminating inexpressive variables by means of principal component analysis. The following performance traits were recorded: live body weight (LBW), eviscerated carcass weight (CW), whole leg weight (WLW), breast weight (BW), abdominal fat pad weight (FW), and giblets weight (liver, gizzar...
Since cinnamon has vitamins and minerals in addition to antioxidants compounds in its chemical composition studies have shown the potential of cinnamon supplementation on some important characteristics in the performance of birds. Thus, this study was conducted under the hypothesis that the inclusion of cinnamon in the laying quail diet could influence the performance of the birds through the expression of gene...
The objective of this study is to estimate genetic parameters for growth traits in sheep Santa Ines breed by Restricted Maximum Likelihood (REML). The (co)variance components and genetic parameters were estimated by MTDFREML Software (Multiple Trait Derivative-Free Restricted Maximum Likelihood). The characteristics evaluated in single and two-trait models were: birth weight (BW) and weaning weight (WW). In add...
With the objective to study the nutritional value of maniçoba in silage form, with or without corn meal, this study was undertaken. The used treatments were: maniçoba silage with four levels (0; 10; 20 and 30) of addition of corn meal, with five repetitions for treatment. The pH of the silage remained between 4.1 to 4.3 which would be satisfactory indicating that there was a good lactic fermentation, independen...
Objetivou-se neste estudo, estimar os componentes de (co)variância e parâmetros genéticos para as características de peso ao nascer (PN) e peso ao desmame ajustado aos 90 dias de idade (P90) em cordeiros da raça Santa Inês. Foram utilizados registro de 2.111 cordeiros obtidos de um rebanho experimental da EMBRAPA/CPATC, nascidos entre 1998 a 2008. Os componentes de (co)variância foram estimados pelo método de A...