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The Agricultural Research Company of Minas Gerais (EPAMIG) has developed a wheat cultivar, MGS Brilhante, which does not have a canopy, and has become an interesting alternative for animal production. Thus, the objective of this study was to evaluate the weight gain of crossbred bull calves kept in confinement and fed with different proportions of wheat and corn silage in the diet. The research was conducted in the Experimental Center of Sertãozinho of EPAMIG, in the municipality of Patos de Minas, Minas Gerais. The tested diets had different levels of wheat silage addition: 0% (T1), 33% (T2), 67% (T3) and 100% (T4). During 105 days, 20 calves with average age of 18 were evaluated. The weight gain was measured on five dates, with average intervals of 21 days. Four treatments and five animals per treatment were utilized, totaling 20 experimental plots, in randomized blocks. All data were submitted to analysis of, with significance of 5%, and were compared by the Tukey test. All statistical analyses were performed using the SISVAR 5.6 software. The results showed significant difference (P |
