Replacement of coastcross hay by soybean hulls in diets for feedlot lambs. / Substituição do feno de "coastcross" (Cynodon spp) por casca de soja na alimentação de borregas (os) confinadas (os).

AUTOR(ES)

Janice Barreto de Morais

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2003

RESUMO

Ewe lambs need a high quality diet to attain breeding weight at 7 months of age. Three trials were conducted to evaluate the replacement of coastcross hay by soybean hulls on feedlot lambs: Trial I (performance), Trial II (ingestive behavior) and Trial III (diet digestibility). In Trials I and II, forty-eight Santa Inês ewe lambs (initial body weight 23.1 ± 3.3 kg and 124 ± 9 days old) were penned 2 by 2 in 24 pens and assigned to a randomized block design. Soybean hulls replaced hay at 12.5%, 25% or 37.5% on DM basis. All diets were isonitrogenous and isoNDF. The control diet contained 50% coarsely chopped coastcross hay and no soybean hulls. There was an increased linear response (P<0.01) on dry matter intake (DMI) and average daily gain and a decreased linear response (P<0.01) on feed conversion when soybean hulls were added to the diet. The ingestive behavior (eating, ruminating and total chewing) presented a decreased linear trend (P<0.02) for minutes/day, minutes/g of NDF intake and minutes/g of DMI as soybean hulls were added to the diet. On digestibility trial (Trial III), four Santa Inês ram lambs (43 kg BW and 9 mo) were used in a 4x4 latin square design. Experimental treatments were the same as those used on Trial I. There was an increased linear trend (P<0.04) on DM, organic matter (OM), NDF, ADF and hemicellulose intake as well as for DM, OM, NDF and hemicellulose digestibilities. There was a quadratic response (P=0.02) on ADF digestibility. When soybean hulls are added to the diet up to 37.5% (DM basis) there is an improvement on OM and DM digestibilities and animal performance. Ingestive behavior results may imply a lower NDF physical effectiveness for the soybean hulls as compared to coastcross hay.

ASSUNTO(S)

comportamento ingestivo animal alimentação animal ovino. animal ingestive behavior digestibilidade soybean hulls feno de capim coast-cross casca de soja feeedlot confinamento animal animal feeding sheep. coastcross hay digestibility

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