Comportamiento de novillos Wagyu puros en confinamiento

The purpose of this experiment was to evaluate the ingestive behavior of 32 Wagyu breed steers in the "El Oriental" cabin in Mercedes. The objective of this study is to be able to analyze if there is a difference in their behavior (Number of views to the feeder, Effective minutes in the feeder and Daily intake weight) of them when providing them with different diets. The study divided the 32 steers into 3 different treatments plus a repetition, each treatment had 8 steers and they were fed a diet with different characteristics between treatments 1, 3 and 4; treatment 1 and 2 were repetitions. The diets were differentiated into wet and dry, also including the addition of lipids. To analyze the results, analysis of variance and Tukey tests were applied using the MIXED and GLM procedures in the SAS program for statistical analysis, where we evaluated differences between treatments and then the individual performance of each steer within each treatment. Comparing the results we could observe that there are significant differences between treatments as well as between animals of the same treatment. The results obtained from this work are that depending on the type of diet given to the animal, its behavior varies. It was observed that there were statistically significant differences in effective minutes in the feeder and ingestion weight of the animals according to the diet provided. In conclusion, it can be said that depending on the diet that is provided to the animal, it will behave differently with different diets.