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Journal of Dairy Science Vol. 46 No. 10 1085-1088
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Nutritive Value of Spelt (Triticum Sativum Spelta) for Dairy Cattle1

J. R. Ingalls, D. E. Morgan2, J. W. Thomas and C. F. Huffman

Dairy Department, Michigan State University, East Lansing

ABSTRACT

Spelt samples from ten different sources were found to have a composition similar to oats. Digestion coefficients of a spelt sample determined directly, using three dry Holstein cows, showed that TDN values for spelt were approximately the same as those for oats. In a 90-day trial in which an equal weight of spelt relative to oats or corn was fed as growth supplements to dairy heifers, those fed oats or spelt exhibited similar live weight increases (93 lb). In contrast, those fed corn had greater (P < 0.05) gains (118 lb).

Corn, oats, and spelt were also compared on a pound-for-pound basis for milk production. Average daily production of 4% FCM for cows fed oats or corn was 53.1 and 52.2 lb, respectively, significantly greater than the 50.3 lb of FCM produced by those fed spelt (P < .05). Cows fed spelt or oats required less gross TDN to produce 100 lb of FCM than cows fed corn (P < .01). Production of 100 lb FCM, after maintenance and body change requirement had been subtracted, required 35.5 lb spelt, 36.2 lb corn, and 39.2 lb oats.

FOOTNOTES

1 Journal Article No. 3108 from the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station.

2 Present address: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, National Agricultural Advisory Service, Wales Sub-Centre, Bangor, Caernarvonshire, Wales, Great Britain. Portions of this data were collected while Mr. Morgan was on a W. K. Kellogg Foundation Fellowship.






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