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Journal of Dairy Science Vol. 53 No. 10 1483-1489
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Flow and Composition of Lymph in the Young Bovine1

D. R. Romsos2 and A. D. McGilliard

Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, Ames 50010

ABSTRACT

Thoracic or intestinal duct lymph was collected from 15 Holstein calves of similar age and weight, fed whole milk twice daily, or hay and grain ad libitum. Average lymph flows were derived from a series of 13-hour total lymph collections with simultaneous infusion of the collected lymph at a rate approximately equal to the flow. Lymph flow from the thoracic or intestinal duets of calves fed milk averaged 695 and 429 ml/hr, respectively, while lymph flow from the thoracic or intestinal duct of calves fed hay and grain averaged 899 and 517 ml/hr. Lymph flow increased after whole milk feeding, but calves fed hay and grain showed no consistent diurnal pattern in lymph flow associated with feed intake.

Lipid in lymph averaged 1.45, 3.14, 0.50, and 0.79 g/100 ml in the thoracic and intestinal ducts of milk-fed and of hay- and grain-fed calves. Calves fed milk consumed 2 to 3 times as much lipid as those fed hay and grain, but there was little diurnal variation in lipid output in the lymph of calves fed either diet. Protein in lymph averaged 4.04, 4.63, 3.66, and 4.89 g/100 ml in the thoracic and intestinal ducts of milk-fed and of hay- and grain-fed calves.

FOOTNOTES

1 Journal Paper no. J6519 of the Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station, Ames. Project no. 1324. Supported in part by funds provided by Grant HE-04969, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

2 Present address: Department of Animal Science, University of Illinois, Urbana 61801.






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