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Effect of environmental enrichment for piglets in the nursery phase
Bortolanza Padilha-Boaretto, Joselaine; Groff-Urayama, Priscila Michelin [UNESP]; Einsfeld, Suelen Maria; De Souza, Cleverson; Mendes, Angélica SignorMade available in DSpace on 2021-06-25T10:15:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-01-01; Objective: The effect of environmental enrichment on the behaviour of piglets in the nursery phase was evaluated. Methods: A total of 450 hybrid pigs (21 day old), including both females and uncastrated males, weighing approximately 6 kg, were distributed in a completely randomised design with 3 treatme...
Performance and maternal-offspring behavior of ewes fed protected fat from palm...
Santos, Guilherme Batista dos; Negri, Renata; Maeda, Emilyn Midori; Vilela, Valter Oshiro; Hill, João Ari Gualberto; Macedo, Vicente de PauloThis study aimed to evaluate the performance and maternal-offspring behavior of ewes fed protected fat from palm oil. Forty multiparous ewes with an average age of three years were divided into two treatments, with or without protected fat supplementation (in concentrate). Every 15 days and at the time of lambing, weighing and body condition evaluation of sheep were performed, while lambs were evaluated at birt...
Nutritional and morphostructural characterization of pre-dried winter grass silage
Simionatto, Márcio; Maeda, Emilyn Midori; Fluck, Ana Carolina; Silveira, Allan Patrick; Piran Filho, Francisco Antônio; Paula, Fabiana Luiza Matielo deThe aim was to evaluate the productive quality and fermentative as like the nutritional parameters of winter grass silage in the vegetative and reproductive stages in two consecutive crop years. The experiment was carried out at Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Campus Dois Vizinhos, Brazil, from April 2012 to December 2013. The experimental field had a 560 m2 area; it comprised 32 plots of 16 m2 each...
Diet and breed alter community structures of rumen protozoa in cattle subjected...
Reis, Cândida Camila dos; Maeda, Emilyn Midori; Cedrola, Franciane; Martins, Elias Nunes; Paula, Fabiana Matielo De; Martinele, IsabelThe objective were to identify and quantify the rumen protozoa from two genetic groups of beef cattle (Nellore and crossbred European beef cattle) subjected to three feeding systems (pasture, pasture supplement, and confined). Samples of rumen contents were obtained from the center of the ruminal mass after slaughter. Quantification and identification of rumen protozoa were performed with a Sedgewick-Rafter cou...