Utilização de dietas com alto grão integral para ruminantes

Abstract

The evolution of beef cattle has led to an increase in the gain per area on rural properties, with the development of production technologies to support this evolution. The use of a high-grain diet has helped the producer to carry out strategies with the objective of increasing profit, considering that high-grain diets consisting of pellets and corn are increasingly gaining space in Brazilian rural properties, given their efficiency and versatility. The high-grain diet for finishing beef cattle has shown proven technical feasibility, consequently expanding the technological options that are available to feedlots whose objective is to produce beef efficiently. Therefore, confinement with the use of high-grain diets can be effective as a way to increase gains, especially in periods when the seasonality of forages ends up compromising the good performance of the animal. In addition, the observation of the cost of food, both the grain and the core, are factors that determine the choice of a high-grain diet in order to achieve the objectives in the confinement of beef cattle in a more advantageous way. However, high grain diets are considered management tools that can and should be used in confinement, with attention and technical knowledge, having to know the grain used, the genetics, age and health of the animal and it is extremely important to respect the period of animal adaptation. Given this context, the present study had the general objective of presenting a literature review on the importance of using high grain diets in ruminants in a confinement system.