Use of glycerine as an additive for treating to grain for feeding of ruminants ruminants

• Grant number: 12/11059-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: April 01, 2013
• End date: November 30, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Animal Husbandry - Animal Nutrition and Feeding
• Principal Investigator: Telma Teresinha Berchielli
• Grantee: Elias San Vito
• Supervisor: James S. Drouillard
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias (FCAV). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Jaboticabal. Jaboticabal , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Kansas State University, United States
• Associated to the scholarship: 11/06409-2 - Crude glycerin from biodiesel came from the agriculture industry in the supplement beef steers raised on pasture, BP.DR

Abstract

Will be held a series of sequential studies, in order to evaluate the use of glycerin as an additive in the treatment of grain for feeding to ruminants. On the grounds that glycerin can act in the process of gelatinization of cereal grains, increasing the susceptibility of this nutrient to ruminal degradation, these studies will determine how the glycerin can be used and the best method of treatment of these grains. The first part of the study (in vitro) is to determine the efficacy of glycerin in the processing of the starch with a further field study to evaluate the use of glycerol as additive in the treatment of grains on animal performance and carcass characteristics. (AU)