Fig 1.
Precipitation and maximum-minimum temperatures during the experimental period.
Table 1.
Mean values of forage mass and percentage of structural components of Brachiaria brizantha cultivars in three grazing cycles.
Table 2.
Chemical composition of forage cultivars and concentrate.
Table 3.
Descriptive analysis of the means (()), standard errors of the mean (
), and confidence intervals (CI) of biometric variables in male (M) and female (F) Santa Inês lambs at 270 days of age, in Northeast Brazil.
Fig 2.
Body condition scores of Santa Inês sheep in an intermittent grazing system on different B. brizantha cultivars in Northeast Brazil.
Fig 3.
Linear behavior of body weight (A and B) and body length (C and D) as a function of age in Santa Inês rams and ewes on Brachiaria brizantha cultivars.
Fig 4.
Linear behavior of heart girth (A and B) and abdominal circumference (C and D) as a function of age in Santa Inês rams and ewes on pastures of Brachiaria brizantha cultivars.
Fig 5.
Linear response of chest width (A and B) and rump width (C and D) as a function of age in Santa Inês rams and ewes on pastures of Brachiaria brizantha cultivars.
Fig 6.
Linear behavior of withers height (A and B) and rump height (C and D) according to age in Santa Inês ewes and rams on Brachiaria brizantha cultivars.
Fig 7.
Linear behavior of leg length (A and B) and leg circumference (C and D) according to age in Santa Inês ewes and rams on Brachiaria brizantha cultivars.
Fig 8.
Body capacity indices (BC1 and BC2) according to age in Santa Inês ewes (A and B) and rams (C and D) on Brachiaria brizantha cultivars.
Table 4.
Regression equations to estimate the live weight of Santa Inês rams and lambs on Brachiaria brizantha cultivars according to biometric measurements.