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

• Grant number: 14/10101-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: October 01, 2014
• End date: May 31, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Animal Husbandry - Animal Nutrition and Feeding
• Principal Investigator: Ricardo Andrade Reis
• Grantee: Carlos Henrique Silveira Rabelo
• Supervisor: Tim McAllister
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias (FCAV). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Jaboticabal. Jaboticabal , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Lethbridge Research Centre (LRC), Canada
• Associated to the scholarship: 12/25463-0 - Action of lactic-acid bacterial and Bacillus subtilis in manipulation of fermentative process in corn silage and their effect on performance animal, BP.DR

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)