Avaliação nutricional de fenos utilizados na alimentação de poedeiras

• Ano de defesa: 2008
• Autor(a) principal: Moreira, Rafaele Ferreira
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Palavras-chave em Português: Zootecnia; Feno de cunhã; Feno das folhas de leucena; Feno das folhas de mandioca; Feno de tifton; Poedeiras; Cassava leaf meal hay; Cunhã hay; Laying hens; Leucaena leaf meal; Tifton hay
• Link de acesso: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/19053

Two different trials were conducted to develop the present work. In the first trial the objective was to determine the chemical composition and the values of metabolizable energy of hays utilized in laying hens diet. The second one, was carried out to evaluate the effect of a quantitative feed restriction on voluntary ingestion of hay, on laying hen performance and on egg characteristics. The metabolism trial was conducted using the total excreta collection methodology. A total of 50 laying hens Hisex Brown with 61 weeks of age were randomly distributed into five treatments with five repetitions of two birds each. Treatments consited of a reference-diet and four test-diets (70% of reference-diet plus 30% of each hay). The hays evaluated were cunhã hay (CH), cassava leaf meal (CLM), leucaena leaf meal (LLM) and tifton (TH). The inclusion of hays in the diets reduced feed intake, the digestibility coeficients of dry matter (DCDM), ether extract (DCEE), crude energy (DCCE) and apparent metabolizable energy corrected to nitrogen (AMEn). However, no effect was found for the digestibility coeficient of crude protein (DCCP) compared to a reference-diet. The values of AME and AMEn of CH, CLM and LLM did not differ among them but they were higher than that of the TH. The values of AME and AMEn of TH, CLM, LLM and CH were: 925 and 1,025; 1,694 and 1,718; 1,718 and 1,848 and 1,758 and 1,777 kcal/kg of dry matter, respectively. In the second trial, 150 laying Hisex Brown with 51 weeks of age were distributed into five treatments with five repetitions of six birds each. The treatments were: a control, consisting of supplying a 100g of a laying hen diet per bird/day without hay and the others consisting of a feed restriction of 5, 10, 15 and 20% of the diet offered to the birds in the control treatment along with an “ad libtum” offering of cunhã hay, leucaena leaf meal and tifton hay. It was found a linear increase of hay consumption with the increase of the level of feed restriction. However, there was a linear decrease of egg production, egg mass and feed conversion. Independently of the level of feed restriction, the consumption of CH and LLM was higher than that of TH. The yolk collor was affected by treatments. Birds from the treatment with 20% of feed restriction showed the highest egg yolk pigmentation. It can be concluded that laying hens raised in semi-intensive system can be submitted to a 5% of feed restriction provided on “ad libtum” offering of hay