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Journal of Dairy Science Vol. 82 No. 11 2455-2465
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Effects of Dietary Fiber on Intake, Milk Yield, and Digestion by Lactating Dairy Cows During Cool or Hot, Humid Weather

J. W. West 1, G. M. Hill 1, J. M. Fernandez 2, P. Mandebvu 1, and B. G. Mullinix 1

1 University of Georgia, Coastal Plain Station, Tifton 31793
2 Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge 70803

Lactating cows were offered diets with increasing neutral detergent fiber concentrations to determine the effects on intake, milk yield and composition, blood hormones, and nutrient digestion during cool or hot weather conditions. Tifton 85 bermudagrass hay was substituted for corn silage so that the forage portion of diets were: 1) 40% corn silage (control), 2) 32.4% corn silage, 7.6% bermudagrass, 3) 24.8% corn silage, 15.2% bermudagrass, or 4) 17.2% corn silage, 22.8% bermudagrass (dry basis). Dietary neutral detergent fiber concentrations (% dry matter) were 30.2, 33.8, 37.7, and 42.0, respectively. Intake of dry matter declined with increasing dietary neutral detergent fiber during cool and hot periods, but intake adjusted for cool weather treatment differences did not change further during hot weather. Milk yield declined linearly with increasing neutral detergent fiber during cool weather and changed quadratically during hot weather. Milk temperature declined with increasing dietary neutral detergent fiber for the p.m. milking during the cool period and declined with increasing dietary neutral detergent fiber for the a.m. and p.m. milkings during the hot period. Digestibility of neutral detergent fiber improved and ruminal turnover of particulate digesta was increased with greater dietary neutral detergent fiber content. No dietary fiber level by hot weather interaction was observed, suggesting that total energy intake may have had a greater effect on milk yield than dietary fiber content during hot, humid weather.

Key Words: lactation • fiber • bermudagrass • heat stress

Submitted on December 8, 1998
Accepted on May 25, 1999




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