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* Department of Dairy and Animal Science, and
Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802
Corresponding author: Z. Wu; e-mail: ziw1{at}psu.edu.
The objective of this study was to determine the effect of dietary forage proportion and P content on fecal P excretion. Four dietary treatments were formed in a 2 x 2 factorial arrangement. The P content was 0.33 or 0.42%, and the forage proportion was 48 or 58% on a dry matter (DM) basis. The neutral detergent fiber content was 27 and 30% for the low and high forage diets, respectively. The P amount was varied by using monosodium phosphate, and the forage amount by changing the proportions of alfalfa silage and corn. The diets were fed to 44 midlactation Holsteins for 14 wk. Fecal P excretion was estimated using Cr marker and grab sampling. Dietary P content did not affect DM intake, milk yield, or milk composition. The P intake averaged 74 and 96 g/d and fecal P averaged 0.69 and 0.92% (DM basis) or 49 and 65 g/d for the low and high P diets, respectively. Thus, reducing dietary P from 0.42 to 0.33% resulted in approximately 25% less estimated fecal P excretion. Increasing dietary forage reduced milk yield (34.0 vs. 36.5 kg/d), but increased milk fat content (3.66 vs. 3.25%). Estimated apparent digestibility of P tended to decrease (31.1 vs. 36.6%) when the forage proportion increased, but most of the change occurred when the diets contained the low amount of P. Overall, the effect of forage proportion on estimated fecal P excretion was small when diets contained 48 or 58% forage, varied by alfalfa silage. Phosphorus intake has a much larger impact on fecal P excretion than forage proportion, and it does not seem necessary to adjust the dietary P content according to the forage proportion to provide the same amount of absorbed P.
Key Words: phosphorus requirement • phosphorus excretion • forage • dairy cow
Abbreviation key: HPHF = high P, high forage, HPLF = high P, low forage, LPHF = low P, high forage, LPLF = low P, low forage, TCORN = Technical Committee on Responses to Nutrients
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