Validation of the use of malt parameters to predict the feed value of barley for feedlot cattle

• Grant number: 14/11842-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Master's degree
• Effective date (Start): August 15, 2014
• Effective date (End): November 30, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Animal Husbandry - Animal Nutrition and Feeding
• Principal Investigator: Ricardo Andrade Reis
• Grantee: Tiago Luís da Ros de Araújo
• Supervisor: Tim McAllister
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias (FCAV). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Jaboticabal. Jaboticabal , SP, Brazil
• Research place: Lethbridge Research Centre (LRC), Canada
• Associated to the scholarship: 13/09394-1 - Diets nutritional efficiency of the beef cattle grazing on different heights associated with supplementation, BP.MS

Abstract

The current proposal represents a potential to reduce the costs with the animal nutrition by increase on the average daily gain and/or feed efficiency, which can be obtained with malt uses. So, the objectives this work is: measure growth and feed intake (feed efficiency) of feedlot cattle fed a diet containing barley differing in diastatic power (high versus low); determine the effect of processing on the relationship between diastatic power and growth, feed intake and efficiency of feedlot cattle; and training of graduate student(s) in the areas of nutrition, research and NIRS. (AU)