(2008-12) OSMARI, Milene Puntel; ARBOITTE, Miguelangelo Ziegler; BRONDANI, Ivan Luiz; KUSS, Fernando; ALVES FILHO, Dari Celstino; RESTLE, João
The performance, physical composition, income of commercial cuts the quality of the meat of twenty eight cows Charolais, Nellore and its cross, were evaluated with initial average live weight of 409kg, finished in native grass with high participation of Eragrostis plana Nees., supplemented per 99 days with wheat bran or rice bran 0.5% of the alive weight in the DM with or without the inclusion of sódica monensina. The use of wheat bran provided a better conformation of the carcass (P<0.05), classifying it as "regulate +" (9.90 points). The others characteristic studied was not influenced (P>0.05) by the type of supplement. The inclusion of sodic monensin did not provide significant differences (P>0.05) in the variable studied.
