Estratégias de suplementação energética para bovinos em recria em pastagens tropicais durante as águas e seus efeitos na terminação em confinamento / Energetic supplementation strategies for growing cattle grazing tropical forages during the raining season and their effects on the feedlot finishing phase.

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2010

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The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of strategies of feeding an energetic supplement to growing cattle, grazing well managed tropical pastures during the rainy season, on the grazing animal performance, pasture stocking rate, total body weight gain per area, and on feedlot finishing phase. The treatments tested were: T1) Control: animals fed only a mineral mixture; T2) Constant level: constant daily feeding of energetic supplement at 0.6% of BW; T3) Increased level: daily feeding of energetic supplement at increasing levels of 0.3, 0.6, and 0.9% BW, according to the experimental period. Seventy six beef steers, averaging 208 kg BW and 8 months of age, were used. Animals were allocated in a 8.5 ha area of Brachiaria brizantha cv. Marandu pasture under a rotational grazing system with a variable defoliation interval. Pre- and post-grazing forage mass (FM, kg MS ha-1), morphological composition (leaves, stem, and dead material percentages), nutritive value of the forage, average daily gain (kg animal-1 day-1), stocking rate (animal ha-1), and weight gain per area (kg ha-1) were evaluated during the growing phase. At the feedlot phase were evaluated the average daily gain (kg animal-1 day-1), dry matter intake (kg day-1), and the gain to feed ratio. Supplemented animals had greater ADG than animals not supplemented (0.535, 0.787, and 0.867 kg animal-1 day-1), respectively for the control, constant, and increasing treatment levels. Furthermore, animals in the increasing supplementation group presented a highest performance when compared to the constant supplementation, although animals from both treatments have consumed similar amount of supplement. Supplementation also was efficient in improving the pasture stocking rate, which averaged 5.94, 7.13, and 6.90 AU ha-1, respectively for the control, constant, and increasing treatment levels.During the feedlot phase, there were no ADG differences among any treatment, which averaged 1.06 kg day-1. DMI and feed efficiency were also not affected by supplementation strategies during the grazing phase.

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suplementos energéticos para animais. supplementation wet season beef cattle bovinos de corte - desempenho capim marandu forragem marandu palisadegrass pastagens recria stubble height. suplementos concentrados para animais

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