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Production and marginal analysis of lactating cows subjected to dietary cation-...
Figueiredo, Cibelle Borges; Santana Junior, Hermógenes Almeida de; Mendes, Fabrício Barcelar Lima; Cardoso-Santana, Elizângela OliveiraThe objective of this study was to evaluate productive, nutritional, and economic traits in lactating cows on pasture fed diets with different cation-anion balances (DCAB). Ten lactating ¾ Holstein × ¼ Dairy Gyr cows in the middle third of lactation, at an average age of 70 ± 4.6 months and an average body weight of 400 ± 55.2 kg, were distributed into five treatments in a 5 × 5 Latin square experimental design...
Supplementation levels for pre-weaning grazing beef heifers during the rainy-dr...
Couto, Victor Rezende Moreira; Paulino, Mário Fonseca; Valadares Filho, Sebastião de Campos; Detmann, Edenio; Porto, Marlos OliveiraThis study was undertaken to examine production performance, pasture and milk intakes and nutrient digestibility in heifers supplemented with different levels of energy in a creep-feeding system on Urochloa decumbens Stapf pastures during the rainy-dry transition season. Fifty-one heifers with predominant Nellore genetic composition (average initial age and weight: 120 days and 133.4 ± 3.12 kg) and their respec...