Evaluation of diets for military horses in moderate activity

[摘要] This study aims to evaluate diets for military horses in moderate activity. This experiment was conducted at Cavalry School of Brazilian Army where diets for horses of Ceremonial Squadron was evaluated. Diets were composed by commercial concentrate, Coast-cross grass hay and hydroponic oat. An performance trial in an randomized block design with three blocks (age of animals) and three treatments (experimental diets) were used. Diet I, fifteen horses fed diets composed by commercial concentrate with alfalfa hay into the pellets; Diet II, fifteen animals fed diets composed by commercial concentrate pellets; Diet III, fourteen animals fed diets composed by commercial concentrate pellets plus 3.0 kg hydroponic oat. Three kilograms of Coast-cross grass hay were added in all diets. At the end of this trial, a digestion trial was carried, in a complete randomized design, with three treatments (diets) and four replications (animals) to evaluate digestibility nutrients of diets, according total feces collection method. Values were submitted by variance analysis and means compared by Tu

[学科分类] 兽医学

[关键词] diets;digestible energy;digestible protein;horses     Introdução Entre os nutrientes necessários ao bom desempenho do eqüino atleta;a energia é de fundamental importância;uma vez que é o fator nutricional mais influenciado pelo esforço físico quando se considera a quantidade de energia;fonte e tempo de fornecimento da dieta (Hintz;1997)