Biological availability of phosphorus from natural phosphates for bovines by the isotope dilution technique

• Autor(a) principal: Lopes, Henrique Otávio da Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Vitti, Dorinha Miriam Silber Schmidt, Pereira, Eurípedes Alves, Abdala, Adibe Luiz, Moraes, Elino Alves de, Filho, José Cleto da Silva, Fichtner, Suzete Silveira
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.sct.embrapa.br/index.php/pab/article/view/13424
• topic: Brachiaria decumbens; dicalcium phosphate; phosphate from Patos; phosphate from Tapira; metabolic cages; basal ration of hay.; Brachiaria decumbens; fosfato bicálcico; fosfato de Patos; fosfato de Tapira; gaiolas metabólicas; ração basal de feno.

A metabolism trial was carried out with steers to study the true absorption of phosphorus from dicalcium phosphate and Brazilian rock phosphates from Patos and Tapira. Twenty-seven steers were assigned to three treatment groups in a randomized block design: dicalcium phosphate (DICAL) and natural rock phosphate from Patos de Minas (FP) and Tapira (FT). The animals were confined in metabolic cages and received a basal ration of Brachiaria decumbens hay and a concentrate with the appropiate phosphorus source. The endogenous fecal loss of phosphorus was estimated by the isotope dilution method using 32P as a tracer. The true absorption of phosphorus was 65,88±8,46; 46,21±7,15 and 44,43±9,67% for DICAL, FP and FT, respectively. True phosphorus absorption was higher (P < 0,01) for the streers receiving DICAL than for those fed FP and FT.