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* Faculty of Agricultural Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z4
Livestock Sciences Section, Research Center, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada T1J 4B1
Corresponding author:
K. A. Beauchemin; e-mail:
beauchemin{at}em.agr.ca.
Four multiparous and four primiparous lactating dairy cows fitted with ruminal cannulas were used in a duplicated 4 x 4 Latin square design to study the effects of parity and inclusion of a fibrolytic enzyme product (Agribrands International, St. Louis, MO) on feeding and chewing behavior, salivation, and ruminal pH. Diets consisting of rolled barley, barley silage, and alfalfa haylage (55% forage, DM basis) differed in enzyme application: 1) control, 2) enzyme applied to concentrate (45% of TMR), 3) enzyme applied to supplement (4% of TMR), and enzyme applied to a premix (0.2% of TMR). Enzyme supplementation did not alter daily time spent eating or ruminating, but when enzymes were added to the ration daily, saliva production increased, with no difference among enzyme application treatments. Multiparous cows consumed a greater amount of feed, but spent a similar amount of time eating, compared to primiparous cows. Primiparous cows had shorter ruminating episodes, resulting in lower daily ruminating time compared with multiparous cows. Primiparous cows had lower daily saliva output compared with multiparous cows. These results indicate that application of this fibrolytic enzyme product did not alter the physical structure of the feed, as measured by feeding and chewing variables. The increase in total saliva production observed in cows fed enzyme-supplemented diets may be attributed to a physiological response to compensate for the increase in fermentation products during digestion. The increased intake for multiparous cows is attributed to increased eating rate and not to increased time spent eating. The higher DMI of multiparous cows resulted in increased rumination time needed to process the additional feed and increased salivation to buffer the greater production of VFA.
Key Words: enzyme • chewing behavior • feeding behavior • ruminal pH
Abbreviation key: CONC = enzyme product added to concentrate (45% of TMR, DM), CTRL = control treatment, MP = multiparous cows, PP = primiparous cows, PREM = enzyme product added to premix (0.2% of TMR, DM), SUPP = enzyme product added to supplement (4% of TMR, DM)
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