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Some Interrelationships between Vitamin E and Vitamin A in Holstein Calves¹

Agricultural Experiment Station, Storrs, Connecticut

ABSTRACT

Thirty-six Holstein male calves, 64 days of age and partially depleted of their tocopherol and vitamin A stores were fed, in addition to a basal ration low in tocopherol and vitamin A, one of three levels of tocopheryl acetate, equivalent to 1, 5, or 25 mg. of free tocopherol per pound live weight per day and one of three levels of vitamin A palmitate, equivalent to 10, 100, or 1,000 of vitamin A alcohol for a 4-wk. period. Upon completion of a 28-day tocopherol-vitamin A supplementation period, one-half of the calves were slaughtered and the other 18 calves were maintained on only the basal ration until plasma vitamin A decreased to 4.0 /100 ml. Based on plasma and liver vitamin A concentrations at the termination of supplementation and on vitamin A depletion time, tocopherol resulted in an increase in utilization of vitamin A at the highest intake of vitamin A, decreases at the lowest intake of vitamin A, and inappreciable change at the middle intake. Across all levels of tocopherol intake, the tocopherol concentration of the tissues decreased with increasing intake of vitamin A. This decrease was greater between the 10 and 100 intake of vitamin A than between the 100 and 1,000 intake. These results indicated a need to establish levels or ratios of intakes of vitamins A and E.

¹ This study was made in part with funds provided by Wirthmore Feeds, Inc., and Chas. H. Hood Dairy Foundation, Boston, Mass. A preliminary report of this study was given at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Eastern Division of the American Dairy Science Association, Sept. 15, 1958, at West Springfield, Massachusetts.

² Present address: Animal Industry and Experimental Statistics Departments, North Carolina State College, Raleigh.

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