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* Department of Animal Science University of California at Davis, Davis, CA 95616-8521
Veterinary Medicine Teaching and Research Center University of California at Davis, Tulare, CA 93274
Corresponding author:
E. DePeters, e-mail:
ejdepeters{at}ucdavis.edu.
Lactating Holstein cows were fed diets with increasing levels of cracked Pima cottonseed to determine its effects on plasma gossypol concentrations as well as milk yield and composition and dry matter (DM) intake in a short-term study. All diets contained 12.8% cottonseed, 43.5% concentrate, and 43.7% chopped alfalfa hay on a DM basis. The proportion of whole Upland cottonseed to cracked Pima cottonseed in the four diets was 100:0, 67:33, 33:67, and 0:100. Four primiparous cows were fed the diets in a 4 x 4 Latin square design, and three multiparous cows were fed the diets in a Youden square design with five periods. All periods were 35 d. Upland and cracked Pima cottonseed contained 0.64 and 1.00% total gossypol (DM) with 41 and 52% of gossypol as the (-) isomer, respectively. Gossypol is a natural defense compound in the plant that protects it against pests and diseases, but can have antinutritional quality effects when consumed by dairy cattle. Total plasma gossypol concentrations increased linearly with increasing proportions (100:0, 67:33, 33:67, and 0:100) of cracked Pima cottonseed in the diet for primiparous (4.4, 6.0, 7.7, and 8.9 µg/ml) and multiparous (4.3, 7.3, 9.7, and 11.4 µg/ml) cows, respectively. While primiparous cows responded similarly to gossypol intake, the response of plasma gossypol intake in multiparous cows differed among cows. This indicates the importance of animal variation when relating plasma gossypol levels with gossypol intake. Milk yield, as well as its components and DM intake, were not affected by increasing dietary inclusion levels of cracked Pima cottonseed up to 8.6% of DM intake for either primiparous or multiparous cows, even though plasma gossypol concentrations increased sharply over this dietary inclusion range. Although the highest dietary inclusion level of Pima cottonseed (i.e., 12.8%) numerically depressed performance of cows of both parities, these differences failed to reach statistical significance in these short-term trials with few cows.
Key Words: Pima cottonseed • Upland cottonseed • gossypol • milk yield
Abbreviation key: CLA = conjugated linoleic acid, CrP = cracked Pima cottonseed, FA = fatty acid, SS = short staple cottonseed, PUN = plasma urea nitrogen, TG = total gossypol, WCS = whole Upland cottonseed, WP = whole Pima cottonseed
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