This study was aimed at investigating steers performance on native pasture supplemented with levels of full fat rice bran: 0; 0.5; 1.0 and 1.5% of body weight of the animals, in a completely randomized design, with a split plot arrangement, during 126 days. In main plots were allocated the levels of supplement and in a split plot, the periods of time (6 periods of 21 days each). The supplementation was individual, offered twice a day, at 7am and 3.3pm. The system of pasture was continuous grazing with fix stocking density and variable stocking rate. The average percent of crude protein were 6.8% and 14.9% and the in vitro digestibility coefficients were 59.54% and 71.47% in native pasture and rice bran, respectively (in the dry matter). The live weight gains of the animals were 0.35; 0.55; 0.53 and 0.63kg d-1 with the rice bran daily inclusion of 0.0; 0.5; 1.0 and 1.5% of the animals live weigh differing only when it was considered the use or not use of the supplement. The carcass yield and weigh do not differ among the treatments. The supplementation with full fat rice bran in the levels between 0.5% and 1.5% of live weight proportioned an increase on the live weigh gain of approximately 60% when compared with the animals that did not receive supplement.
daily live weigh gain; native pasture; supplement; continuous grazing; carcass weight
