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Tipo: Artigo
Título: Assessment of the oxygen pulse and heart rate method using respiration chambers and comparative slaughter for measuring heat production of cattle
Autor(es): Oss, D. B.
Marcondes, M. I.
Machado, F. S.
Tomich, T. R.
Chizzotti, M. L.
Campos, M. M.
Pereira, L. G. R.
Abstract: The objective of this study was to assess the oxygen pulse and heart rate (O2P-HR) technique using the respiration chamber (RC) and comparative slaughter (CS) methods for measuring the heat production (HP) of crossbred (Holstein × Gyr) yearling bulls. Twenty-four bulls were used. Six bulls were slaughtered at the beginning of the experiment as a reference group to estimate the initial empty body weight (BW) and energy content of the remaining animals. The remaining bulls were assigned to a completely randomized design with 3 levels of dry matter intake, with 6 replicates. The levels of dry matter intake were 1.2% of BW, 1.8% of BW and ad libitum, with target orts of 5%. The bulls were fed a diet consisting of 59.6% corn silage and 40.4% concentrate on a dry matter basis. The HP (kcal/BW0.75) was measured using 3 techniques, first using O2P-HR, followed by the RC and CS methods. The HP did not differ among assessed techniques, averaging 162.7 kcal/BW0.75. The intercepts of the linear regressions (mean ± SE) were 64.82 ± 25.515 (H0: intercept = 0; P = 0.024), 33.77 ± 13.418 (H0: intercept = 0), and 50.02 ± 27.495 (H0: intercept = 0) for O2P-HR versus RC, CS versus RC, and O2P-HR versus CS, respectively. The slopes of the linear regressions were 0.59 ± 0.153 (H0: slope = 1), 0.88 ± 0.081 (H0: slope = 1), and 0.62 ± 0.155 (H0: slope = 1) for O2P-HR versus RC, CS versus RC, and O2P-HR versus CS, respectively. The coefficients of determination were 0.52, 0.90, and 0.52 for O2P-HR versus RC, CS versus RC, and O2P-HR versus CS, respectively. The concordance correlation coefficients, 0.70 and 0.68, were moderate for O2P-HR versus RC and O2P-HR versus CS, respectively, but high, 0.90, for CS versus RC. The between-animal coefficient of variation was greater for the O2P-HR method (16.6%) compared with RC (7.7%) or CS (6.7%). We conclude that there was an agreement among the HP measurements detected using the assessed methods and that O2P-HR is able to predict HP in cattle with great accuracy but only moderate precision. Therefore, the O2P-HR method may have limitations in terms of assessing HP in low numbers of replications due to greater between-animal coefficient of variation than either the RC or CS methods.
Palavras-chave: Heart rate
Heat production
Oxygen pulse
Editor: Journal of Dairy Science
Tipo de Acesso: American Dairy Science Association
URI: https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2016-11157
http://www.locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/21398
Data do documento: Nov-2016
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