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Department of Animal Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing 48824-1225
Corresponding author: Michael S. Allen; e-mail: allenm{at}msu.edu.
Interactions of endosperm type of corn grain and the brown midrib 3 (bm3) mutation in corn silage on ruminal kinetics and site of nutrient digestion of lactating dairy cows were evaluated. Eight ruminally and duodenally cannulated cows (72 ± 8 d in milk; mean ± SD) were used in a duplicated 4 x 4 Latin square design experiment with a 2 x 2 factorial arrangement of treatments. Treatments were corn grain endosperm type (floury or vitreous) and corn silage type (bm3 or isogenic normal). Diets contained 26% neutral detergent fiber (NDF) and 30% starch. Interactions of treatments were not observed for any measure of digestibility, but digestion kinetics of starch and fiber did interact to affect digestible organic matter intake by affecting dry matter intake. Rate of ruminal starch digestion was faster and rate of ruminal starch passage tended to be slower in diets containing corn grain with floury vs. vitreous endosperm, resulting in a mean increase of 22 units for ruminal starch digestibility. Although compensatory postruminal starch digestion decreased differences among treatments for total tract starch digestibility, starch entering the duodenum was more digestible for grain with floury endosperm compared with vitreous grain, resulting in greater total tract starch digestibility for floury compared with vitreous corn grain. Fermentation rate of potentially digestible NDF was not affected by either bm3 corn silage or greater ruminal starch digestion of floury grain. Brown midrib corn silage increased total tract NDF digestibility vs. control silage by numerically increasing ruminal and postruminal digestibility of NDF. Endosperm type of corn grain greatly influences site of starch digestion and should be considered when formulating diets.
Key Words: endosperm • brown midrib • starch digestibility
Abbreviation key: bm3 = brown midrib 3 mutation, iNDF = indigestible NDF, pdNDF = potentially digestible NDF.
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