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Effect of Level of Intake on Digestibility of Dietary Energy by High-Producing Cows¹

Department of Animal Husbandry, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

ABSTRACT

Total digestible nutrient values of three diets each containing 48 to 75% of concentrates were determined in 107 trials with cows ingesting one to five times the amount of feed required for maintenance. Baseline TDN values were determined with the same diets fed to mature steers at the one times maintenance level of intake. The average rate of depression in the TDN value was 4.0% (range, 3.41 to 6.22%) per increment of intake equivalent to the maintenance requirement for TDN. If it is assumed that the metabolizable energy value is proportional to the TDN value of the diet, these observations suggest that the dietary energy requirements (expressed as TDN measured at the maintenance level of intake) increase per unit of milk produced as the milk output or feed input per day increases. Based on the average data obtained, a 1,400-lb cow in body energy equilibrium would require, in addition to her maintenance requirement, the following amounts (pound) of TDN (measured at the maintenance intake) per pound of 4% FCM produced at the following levels (lb/day), respectively: 0.317, 10; 0.322, 20; 0.327, 30; 0.333, 40; 0.339, 50; 0.346, 60; 0.353, 70; 0.361, 80; 0.370, 90; and 0.380, 100.

¹ This investigation was supported in part by a research grant (AM-02889) from the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases, U. S. Public Health Service, and research grants from the Cooperative Grange League Federation, Inc., Ithaca, New York, and the Eastern States Farmers' Exchange, Inc., Springfield, Mass.

² Present address: Dairy Cattle Research Branch, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland.

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