The experiment was conducted with the objective to evaluate the use of soybean meal centrifugeted (SMC) as substitution for soybean meal (SM) in the concentrate fraction of the diet of confined steer calves, being tested the following treatments: T1 - 100% of SM; T2 - 66% of SM + 34% of SMC; T3 - 34% of SM + 66% of SMC e T4 - 100% of SMC. Thirty-six steers no castrated Braford (5/8 Hereford 3/8 Nellore) calves with an age average of seven months and average live weight of 202kg, were used. The whole feedlot period was 168 days, divided in four periods of 42 days. The roughage:concentrate ratio was 60:40 for the first and second periods, 50:50 for the third period and 45:55 for the fourth period. No signification interaction was observed between substitution of level of the protein source and feedlot evaluation period for average daily dry matter intake (DMI), crude protein intake (CPI) and digestible energy intake (DEI), respectively, expressed per animal (DMID, CPID and DEID), per 100kg of live weight (DMIP, CPIP, DEIP) and per unit of metabolic weight (DMIM, CPIM and DEIM), for average daily weight gain (ADG), feed conversion (FC) and crude protein efficiency (CPE). The use of soybean meal centrifugeted with protein source as substitution partial or total of soybean meal in concentrate fraction of the diet feedlot steer calves, for young beef cattle production, did not affect (P>.05) of average dry matter intake, daily weight gain, feed conversion and crude protein efficiency.
Braford; crude protein; feedlot; substitution
