Milho e seu processamento visando eficiência digestiva em bovino

Abstract

In times of searching for technologies to increase livestock productivity without, however, increasing production costs, studies involving the maximization of digestive efficiency due to the use of processed foods have great potential. The processing of corn grain promotes changes in the starch digestion site, in the total use of the food and diet, in addition to providing substantial changes in the ruminal environment. In this sense, the present work aims to present corn and its processing: aiming at digestive efficiency in beef and dairy cattle. To this end, bibliographical research was carried out on the topic, covering points such as: Corn climbing in Brazil; Corn Ecophysiology; Vegetative stage; Reproductive stage; Cultivars; Corn processing; Diets for cattle (beef and dairy) and Rumen Wellbeing. The results showed that flaked corn has better gains in both weight and feed efficiency, so the use of additives in diets contributes to the use of these processes. Then farming went from traditional to modern, where scientific methods became dominant. focusing mainly on the areas of physics, chemistry and biology, with contributions to the emergence of large companies providing technologies, genetics, reproduction, nutrition and animal welfare, with knowledge in semi-confinement, confinement and intensive. With this, it is observed that the lack of qualified professionals in rumen studies and in their behavior with nutrition on properties, many problems of metabolic disorders will arise, which can favor low profitability of properties as well as contribute to the failure of farms. or confinements.