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1 Department of Dairy and Animal Science, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park 16802
Forty-three multiparous Holstein cows were used in a completely randomized design to evaluate the effects of protein supplementation and the use of bovine somatotropin (bST; Posilac®, Monsanto Co., St. Louis, MO) in late gestation on animal metabolism and productivity in the periparturient period. Treatments were initiated 28 d prior to expected calving date and continued through parturition. Diets contained either 13.3 or 17.8% crude protein and were formulated to be similar in profile of protein fractions. Within each dietary treatment, cows were assigned to receive either 0 or 500 mg of sustained released bST once every 14 d until parturition. Following parturition, all cows were subjected to the same management and dietary treatments, and production measurements were followed until 42 d in milk. The use of bST increased plasma glucose and decreased plasma nonesterified fatty acids and ß-hydroxybutyrate prior to calving. Despite these changes in metabolism, bST did not affect concentrations of fat and triglyceride in the liver prepartum or postpartum. Feeding the 17.8% protein diet failed to stimulate glucose metabolism and tended to elevate plasma ß-hydroxybutyrate in late gestation. Cows treated with bST produced 3.3 kg/d more milk than did controls across the first 42 d of lactation; the difference was 4.6 kg/d in wk 6 of lactation. The use of bST in late gestation has considerable promise to alter cow metabolism positively. The results of these and other possible periparturient responses to somatotropin may increase milk production in early lactation.
Key Words: protein • somatotropin • metabolites • glucose
Submitted on July 24, 1998
Accepted on December 28, 1998
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