Evaluation of apparent digestibility of grasses and legume hays for equines

  • Carlos Eduardo Furtado UEM -Maringá
  • Lizete Cabrera UEM
  • Nilva Aparecida Nicolao Fonseca UEM
  • João Waine Pinheiro UEM
  • Douglas Alexandre Aragão UEM
  • Emanoelle Belinelli UEM
  • Chiara Albano de Araujo Oliveira UEM

Abstract

Four adult horses were used in a trial in latin square design (4 X 4). The treatments were: AH - alfafa hay (Medicago sativa L.), CH - coastcross hay (C. dactylon Pers) and EH - stargrass hay (Cynodon. nenfluensis L.). The experiment lasted 65 days, devided as following: a 5-day pre-experimental period, and 4 experimental periods of 15 days (10 days adaptation and 5 days total feces collection). The analysis of variance showed difference (P < 0.05) between the tratments only for the crude protein digestibility coefficients, AH = 66.2; CH = 52.5; TH = 58.8 and EH = 29.0%.

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Author Biography

Carlos Eduardo Furtado, UEM -Maringá
Tem experiência na área de Zootecnia, com ênfase em Nutrição e Avaliação de Alimentos para Animais, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: equinos, manejo, nutrição, alimentação, minerais, exigencias nutricionais, alimentação e avaliação de alimentos. Currículo Lattes
Published
2008-07-14
How to Cite
Furtado, C. E., Cabrera, L., Fonseca, N. A. N., Pinheiro, J. W., Aragão, D. A., Belinelli, E., & Oliveira, C. A. de A. (2008). Evaluation of apparent digestibility of grasses and legume hays for equines. Acta Scientiarum. Animal Sciences, 21, 651-655. https://doi.org/10.4025/actascianimsci.v21i0.4326
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Zootecny

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