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1 Department of Animal Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson 85721-0038
Thirty-two Holstein cows (8 per treatment) averaging 195 d in milk were assigned to 70 d of treatment on the basis of production during a 14-d pretreatment period, which was used for covariate analysis. The experiment was a randomized block design with a 2 x 2 factorial arrangement of treatments. Factors were normal shade or shade plus evaporative cooling with pressurized spray, plus with or without the administration of bovine somatotropin (bST). Cows receiving bST were injected with 500 mg of bST every 14 d. All cows were fed the same total mixed rations twice daily at approximately 10% in excess of appetite, and water was offered free choice. There were no interactions between bST and the cooling system for any of the variables measured. Milk yield was increased by bST and tended to be greater for cooled cows. Fat percentages were increased by bST, and yields of fat, protein, and 3.5% fat-corrected milk, and the efficiency of conversion of dry matter to milk, whereas evaporative cooling increased body weights and protein yields, but decreased SNF and milk protein percentages. Rectal temperatures and respiration rates also were lower for cooled cows. And, bST increased nonesterified fatty acids in blood serum, suggesting that a part of the energy for increased milk production came from mobilization of body fat. Administration of bST effectively improved performance of cows under hot summer conditions whether evaporatively cooled or not.
Key Words: bovine somatotropin • evaporative cooling • summer heat stress
Submitted on February 8, 1999
Accepted on June 14, 1999
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