Utilização do milheto como substituto do milho em rações para cabras leiteiras
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1996-12
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Antônio Henrique Garcia
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Pearl millet (Pennisetum americanum) is an annual summer forage that grows in India and some African countries, used for human and animal feeding. Due to its high nutritive value it can be used for grain production and forage. Because of its fisiologic caracteristics, pearl millet is adapted to the soil and climate conditions of brazilian cerrados region. This triai was conducted with the aim of evaluating the use of pearl millet (grain + ears) to dairy goat feeding. Sixteen dairy goat females were alloted in a latin square design and submitted to four leveis of substitution of millet ear com for pearl millet. The percentual leveis of substitution used were 0%, 25%, 50% and 75% that corresponds to treatments 1, 2, 3 and 4, respectively. The results, obtained in terrns of average of milk production in a period of six days, were: 4,471, 4,621, 4,911 and 4,771 fortreaunents 1, 2, 3 and 4, respectively. lt was not observed any statistical difference between treatments with the use of Tukey test at the probability levei of 5%.
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Milheto, Cabras leiteiras, Ração
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FRANÇA, Aldi Fernandes de Souza; ORSINE, Geisa Fleury; DIAS, Miguel Joaquin; STRINGHINI, José Henrique; PÁDUA, João Teodoro; PÁDUA, Delma Machado Cantisani; MUNDIM, Said Pereira. Utilização do milheto como substituto do milho em rações para cabras leiteiras. Anais da Escola de Agronomia e Veterinária, Goiânia, v. 26, n. 2, p. 89-95, jul./dez. 1996. Disponível em: <https://www.revistas.ufg.br/pat/article/view/2942/2989>.