Moist grain in animal nutrition: meta-analytic study

Abstract

The present work had as objective accomplishes a meta-analyticstudy to analyze the goods published about the use of silage humid grains in the animal feeding between the years 2000 and 2011, for both research gathered all papers published in those years in the magazines: Brazilian magazine of Zootecnia and Rural Science, being just admitted goods to have treatment controls and that evaluated acting, carcass characteristic and digestive parameters, with or without economical analysis. The works were tabulated in electronic spreadsheets (Excel) and it was compared all of the treatments with their respective control, the conclusion that the method meta-analytic can be considered an important tool that allows to evaluate the productive answers in experiments that used humid grain in the animal production being arrived. In most of the analyzed works it was obtained positive results, although some indirect effects were not measured in several experiments.