Minerals organic in diets for ruminantes

Abstract

The nutritional management tool is essential for obtaining success in the animal production system. Thus, it is necessary, that the animals express their maximum productive potential, nutritionally balanced diets that supply the demands of production. Among the various nutrients, minerals are essential elements for composition of diets as performing various functions in the animal organism. Meanwhile, the Brazilian pastures have deficiencies and imbalances of mineral elements essential to ruminants, limiting the performance of both animals for the production of meat and milk. Although it is known that mineral supplementation is part of a small portion of the diet of the animals, their presence in the diet is essential to increase and improve the productive and reproductive performance. Today, minerals are presented in two forms: inorganic and organic, and find common supplements in the composition of the inorganic sources. However, it has sought the use of sources of high bioavailability and free of contaminants. Thus, many investigations have been conducted to evaluate the use of organic minerals in the composition of diets for ruminants. Thus, this review aims to provide an overview of the results obtained with the use of organic minerals and compare them to inorganic sources.