Edenio Detmann

Universidade Federal de Viçosa (UFV) | UFV · Department of Animal Science

Emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG), especially methane (CH 4), from dairy production have received much research attention in the past 15 years, with the main focus being to identify factors affecting CH 4 production and measures to reduce CH 4 emissions from dairy cows. However, measurement of CH 4 production by dairy cows in commercial herds is...

The objective of this work was to evaluate the effect of energy-protein supplementation in preand postpartum periods on the productive and metabolic responses of grazing beef cows on tropical pasture. A group of 48 multiparous Nellore cows, with an initial gestation period of 6.4 months, body weight (BW) of 514.9 kg, and body condition score (BCS)...

The objective was to evaluate the metabolic and performance differences in primiparous Nellore cows, which became pregnant at 14 or 24 months. Thirty-eight primiparous Nellore cows, which were bred for first pregnancy at 14 or 24-mo of age, with 202 ± 5 days of gestation were divided into two treatments according to breeding age: 14 or 24 months in...

Most studies investigate the impact of stress at weaning on calves; however, little is known about the responses of cows, and whether they would differ according to parity. This study aims to investigate whether parity would influence the weaning stress response in beef cows. Thirty pregnant Nellore cows with their respective calves were randomly a...

Creatinine and intravenously infused Cr-EDTA complex were compared as markers for urinary volume estimation in cattle fed diets containing different concentrate levels. Ten Nellore heifers were used in a two-period crossover design and fed with two diets of divergent maize silage to concentrate ratios (90:10 and 50:50). The urinary marker concentra...

We aimed to test the associative effects among forages, and between forage and concentrates on the in vitro digestibility of dry matter and neutral detergent fibre using an artificial ruminal fermentation system. The study consisted of two assays, in which associative effects were evaluated among three forages, sugarcane, maize silage, and Tifton 8...

Creatinine is a urinary marker used widely in ruminant's experimental trials. However, despite its great importance no data were found in the literature about the best way to store bovine urine samples. In the sheep urine, was observed an increase in the urinary concentration of creatinine when it was stored acidified (pH 2.5 to 3.5) at a temperatu...

Our objective was to evaluate the effects of different energy supplementation strategies in Nellore heifers fed tropical grass forage and infrequently supplemented with nitrogen (N) compounds on voluntary intake, digestion, ruminal fermentation and fibre dynamics, urinary excretion characteristics, N balance, and hormonal and blood metabolic profil...

Background: Dry matter is a routine test for all animal feeds, facilitating feed comparisons and diet formulation. It is the most frequent test, yet the most challenging with respect to precision and accuracy. Objective: Our objective was to evaluate the accuracy, repeatability, and physicochemical impacts of oven-drying times on laboratory dry...

Background Crude ash is categorized as an empirical method playing an important role in the nutritional interpretation of animal feeds, allowing indirect estimation of total organic matter. Objective Our objective was to evaluate variations in laboratory procedures for crude ash quantification regarding physical parameters (i.e., time, temperature...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of adding virginiamycin to either mineral mixture or multiple supplement on intake, digestion, ruminal fermentation profile, rumen microbial production, blood metabolites, and liver metabolism of zebu heifers fed a high-quality tropical forage. Eight Brahman heifers were assigned to a replicated 4 ×...

Our objective was to propose and evaluate a standard procedure for the evaluation of in vitro dry matter digestibility for ruminant feeds, using artificial fermenters. A collaborative study was performed with seven feed analysis laboratories and four feeds (Tifton 85 hay, corn silage, soybean hulls, and soybean meal). Two types of artificial fermen...

The effects of higher supplementation levels for young Nellore heifers fed tropical forages including their influence on puberty, need to be understood. This study investigated the influence of high and moderate supplementation levels on puberty onset and the productive performance of Nellore heifers. Thirty-six Nellore heifers (225 + 3.52 kg) were...

The factorial experiments are useful in animal science, as they allow us to evaluate how different causative factors affect directly the animal responses and, mostly important, how the factors can interfere with each other on that responses. The animal production is naturally an interactive process. Therefore, interactions must be an important aspe...

Our objectives were to evaluate the variability among animals regarding to the degradation rate of the potentially degradable fraction of dry matter, crude protein, and neutral detergent fiber, as well as to establish the minimum number of animals and provide a standardized design of sampling times for in situ ruminal degradation assays of tropical...

Context Supplementation during the pre- and post-weaning periods is essential to improve the development of beef heifers in tropical pastures. Especially during the dry period, performance of heifers is limited due to low forage yield and poor nutritional value. Aim Evaluate the effect of supplementation during pre- and post-weaning periods on perf...

Our objective was to evaluate the effects of protein supplementation frequency on performance and voluntary intake of cattle under grazing in tropical pastures by using a meta-analytical approach. The dataset used to evaluate the voluntary intake was compiled from 18 experiments carried out in Brazil between 2009 and 2021, totaling 75 treatment mea...

Models are useful to predict responses of beef cattle to supplementation and its interactions with pasture quality. Therefore, this study was conducted to quantitatively understand variables that influence the performance of cattle under grazing, with or without supplementation, in the tropics by using a meta-analytical approach. The database was c...

This study aimed to evaluate the effect of parity order on milk yield (MY) and composition over time of grazing beef cows and to evaluate non-linear models to describe the lactation curve. Thirty-six pregnant Nellore cows (12 nulliparous, 2 years; 12 primiparous, 3 years; and 12 multiparous, 4–6 years) were included in the study. With calving day a...

RESUMO Os carboidratos não fibrosos e a matéria orgânica residual constituem componentes de pressupostos de composição de alimentos calculados por diferença. Embora não sejam analisados diretamente, esses possuem importância direta na interpretação das características nutricionais de alimentos e dietas ofertadas para animais ruminantes e não rumina...

Objective: This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of the provision of a protein-rich supplement on productive performance, and metabolic profile on grazing suckling female beef calves in tropical conditions during 150 d of experimentation. Methods: Fifty-six Nellore suckling female calves, and their respective dams were distributed in...

Background Metabolic profile evaluation is a tool widely used in ruminant nutrition as metabolic cues that relate nutrition to physiology. Metabolic and hormonal traits change during pre-partum and lactation according to parity in dairy cows, but studies of beef cows under grazing are scarce. The present study aimed to evaluate how metabolic and ho...

Abstract Background Ruminants rely upon a complex community of microbes in their rumen to convert host-indigestible feed into nutrients. However, little is known about the association between the rumen microbiota and feed efficiency traits in Nellore (Bos indicus) cattle, a breed of major economic importance to the global beef market. Here, we comp...

Background: Metabolic profile evaluation is a tool widely used in ruminant nutrition as metabolic cues that relate nutrition to physiology. Metabolic and hormonal traits change during pre-partum and lactation according to parity in dairy cows, but studies of beef cows under grazing are scarce. The present study aimed to evaluate how metabolic and h...

Equations to estimate energetic content of small ruminants’ diets from chemical composition, in tropical conditions, are still not available. The main objective of this study was to develop equations to predict the digestible content (ether extract (EE), non-fiber carbohydrate (NFC), crude protein (CP) and neutral detergent fiber (NDF)), for differ...

A experimentação zootécnica é um campo científico amplo e plural. Contudo, muitos aspectos adotados em seu escopo são extremamente conservadores. Nesse artigo, de forma particular, são discutidos aspectos da tomada de decisão em trabalhos de zootecnia com base no valor P obtidos em experimentos. São destacados, principalmente, os aspectos re...

The study aimed to evaluate the excretion of purine derivatives (PDs) and nitrogen compounds (NCs) and their ratios with creatinine in supplemented Zebu heifers kept on pastures by comparing total urine collection and spot sampling. Five Nelore heifers (400 ± 15 kg) were used in a 5 × 5 Latin square design. The treatments were the amount of concent...

Effects of protein supplementation, with and without starch supplementation, on nutritional performance and metabolic characteristics of cattle fed low- and medium-quality tropical forages were evaluated using 4 cannulated steers distributed according to a 4 × 4 Latin square. Experimental periods were divided into two subperiods. In the first subpe...

The aim was to evaluate the effects of supplementation with nitrogen and nitrogen plus starch in tropical grass hay (TGH) on neutral detergent fiber (NDF) and dry matter (DM) in vitro digestibility, pH, ammoniacal nitrogen (NH3-N), volatile fatty acids (VFA), methane (CH4), and CO2 emissions. The study was divided into two sets, first, evaluating t...

Effects of daily or every three days supplementation with protein or protein and starch on intake, digestion, rumen dynamics, urinary excretion characteristics, nitrogen (N) balance and, liver function of cattle fed high-quality tropical forage were evaluated. Five Nellore heifers (299 ± 7.5 kg of body weight) fitted with ruminal and abomasal cannu...

Two experiments were conducted: (1) to evaluate the effect of ensiling time and grain source on dietary nitrogen fractions; and (2) to verify the influence of concentrate level, processing method and grain source on intake, microbial efficiency, and digestibility by young Nellore bulls. In Experiment 1, corn and sorghum grains were milled, reconsti...

We evaluated the differences between the supplementation of urea in rumen and/or abomasum on forage digestion, nitrogen (N) metabolism, and urea kinetics in cattle fed a low-quality tropical forage. Five Nellore heifers were fitted with rumen and abomasum fistulas and assigned to a Latin square design. The treatments were: control, continuous infus...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of nutritional strategies on productive and nutritional performance, metabolic profile, and ovarian activity in heifers under grazing in the tropics in Brazil. Forty Nellore heifers averaging 8.5 ± 0.06 months and 248.6 ± 3.3 kg body weight (BW) were distributed in a completely randomized 2 ×...

The objective in this study was to evaluate the effects of supplementation levels on productive and nutritional performance and metabolic profile in suckling female calves under grazing. Forty female calves (averaging 3.5±0.06 months and 127.3±2.68 kg), and their respective dams were distributed in a completely randomized design with two treatments...

Background: Supplementation programs for prepartum beef cows are usually adopted because the nutritional status of the cows upon calving is a main factor impacting reproductive performance of the next production cycle. This study evaluated the effects of 60-d pre-partum energy-protein supplementation on performance, metabolic and hormonal response...

Background: Supplementation programs for prepartum beef cows are usually adopted because the nutritional status of the cows upon calving is a main factor impacting reproductive performance of the next production cycle. This study evaluated the effects of 60-d pre-partum energy-protein supplementation on performance, metabolic and hormonal responses...

Objective: Twenty-four pregnant Nellore primiparous grazing cows were used to evaluate the effects of energy-protein supplementation and supplementation frequency during pre (105 d before calving) and postpartum (105 d after calving) on performance and metabolic characteristics. Methods: Experimental treatments consisted of a control (no supplem...

Background: Supplementation programs for prepartum beef cows are usually adopted because the nutritional status of the cows upon calving is a main factor impacting reproductive performance of the next production cycle. This study evaluated the effects of 60-d pre-partum energy-protein supplementation on performance, metabolic and hormonal responses...

Background: Supplementation programs for prepartum beef cows are usually adopted because the nutritional status of the cows upon calving is a main factor impacting reproductive performance of the next production cycle. Metabolic parameters that relate nutritional status to physiological processes can be used to better understand the effects of supp...

This study evaluated the effects of the amount and frequency of N supplementation on intake, digestion, and urinary and blood characteristics in cattle fed low-quality tropical grass hay. Five ruminally and abomasally fistulated crossbred bulls averaging 262±20 kg of body weight were used in a 5 × 5 Latin square design. The basal diet was composed...

Background: Strategies for feeding supplements during the pre-partum are usually adopted because nutritional status upon calving is the main factor to affect reproductive performance. Metabolic parameters that relate nutritional status to physiological processes can be used to better understand the effects of supplementation. This study evaluated t...

The accurate estimation of protein requirements for beef cattle is a key factor in increasing livestock profitability and decreasing the environmental impacts of excessive N excretion due to mismatching between assumed requirements and diet formulation. A meta-analysis was conducted to evaluate and validate a new equation to predict the net protein...

This study was undertaken to examine production performance, pasture and milk intakes and nutrient digestibility in heifers supplemented with different levels of energy in a creep-feeding system on Urochloa decumbens Stapf pastures during the rainy-dry transition season. Fifty-one heifers with predominant Nellore genetic composition (average initia...

Starch can represent 70 to 80% of the cereals grains (on a dry matter basis) used for livestock feeding. Several methods have been developed to estimate the feed starch contents of energy feed sources. However, the efficiency of these methods to evaluate the starch content in other feed sources, as well as other types of samples used to evaluate st...

This study was designed to evaluate the effects of different supplementation plans on the nutrient intake, apparent total-tract digestibility, grazing behavior, growth performance, and carcass characteristics of beef cattle under grazing conditions from ages 4 to 18 months old. The beef calves grazed Brachiaria decumbens in four seasons: rainy-dry...

The literature lacks studies investigating the performance of supplemented replacement heifers grazing on intensively managed warm-season pasture. Our objective was to evaluate the effects of supplement composition (energetic or protein) on the performance, muscle development, thermogenisis, nutrient intake, and digestibility of replacement Holstei...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of creep-feeding supplementation on growth performance and efficiency, feed intake and digestibility for Nellore calves grazing on tropical pastures, using a meta-analytical approach. The dataset was collected from 18 studies, which were carried out between 2007 and 2017, totalling 75 treatmen...

The ruminant gastrointestinal tract (GIT) microbiome plays a major role in the health, physiology and production traits of the host. In this work, we characterized the bacterial and fungal microbiota of the rumen, small intestine (SI), cecum and feces of 27 Nelore steers using next-generation sequencing and evaluated biochemical parameters within t...

Background: Feed efficiency is one of the most important parameters that affect beef production costs. The energy metabolism of skeletal muscle greatly contributes to variations in feed efficiency. However, information regarding differences in proteins involved in the energy metabolism of the skeletal muscle in beef cattle divergently identified f...

Optimizing the reagents on distillation solution used in the Kjeldahl method could be an important strategy to decrease risk to environmental and human health and consequent reduction in analysis costs. Here, we tested four distillation solution combining two concentrations of boric acid (40 or 20 g/L) and two alcohol solutions of the indicators (m...

Water is the most important nutrient in animal nutrition; however, water intake is rarely measured. The objective of this study was to determine whether previously published water intake (WI) equations for beef cattle would accurately predict WI from four experiments conducted under tropical conditions. The experiments were conducted from 2013 to 2...

Genome‐wide association studies (GWASes) have been performed to search for genomic regions associated with residual feed intake (RFI); however inconsistent results have been obtained. A meta‐analysis may improve these results by decreasing the false‐positive rate. Additionally, pathway analysis is a powerful tool that complements GWASes, as it enab...

We measured nutrient intake and digestibility, performance and mineral status of young Nellore bulls fed three diets with and without supplementation comprising calcium (Ca), phosphorus (P) and micro-minerals during the growing and finishing phases. Five bulls were slaughtered at the beginning of the experiment to measure initial mineral status. Fo...

The aim of this study was to compare the in vitro digestibility of dry matter (IVDMD) and neutral detergent fiber (IVNDFD) using two buffer solutions with or without urea addition. The study was comprised of two separate experiments. In both experiments the treatments were composed of Kansas or McDougall’s buffer solutions with or without urea addi...

The aim of the study was evaluate and compare the efficiency of Bayesian and frequentist approach to describe the rumen degradation of NDF. Simulated data was composed by four scenarios: regular restriction in the number of incubation times, random loss of incubation times, loss of specific parts of degradation curves, variation in the precision of...

The objective of the present study was to evaluate the effect of increasing levels of prepartum and postpartum protein supplementation on nutrient intake and digestibility, productive performance and metabolic status of beef heifers on tropical pasture. Twenty-eight pregnant beef heifers with bodyweight and body condition score of 459.7 ± 6.8 kg an...

The objectives of this study were to evaluate the effects of collection day and 4-hour collection times on the urinary excretion of creatinine, purine derivatives (PD), and nitrogen compounds in grazing Zebu cattle. Five Nellore heifers (300 ± 15.2 kg body weight [BW]) were used in a 5 × 5 Latin square design. Five treatments were tested: a mineral...