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* School of Veterinary Medicine, and
Department of Dairy Science, and
Department of Soil Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53706
1 Corresponding author: pchoffma{at}facstaff.wisc.edu
Total mixed ration (TMR) samples (n = 110) were analyzed for dry matter (DM), crude protein (CP), soluble CP, neutral detergent fiber (NDF), NDF CP, starch, ash, fat, total ethanol-soluble carbohydrate, and nonfiber carbohydrate (NFC). Rapidly and slowly degraded and undegraded in situ CP fractions and in vitro DM, organic matter, and NDF digestibility were determined on each TMR. The TMR were scanned using near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS); spectra were retained with NIRS calibration and cross-validation statistics were determined using partial least squares regression methods. The CP, NDF, starch, in vitro DM, and in vitro indigestible NDF contents of TMR were predicted by NIRS with good degrees (R2 >0.85) of accuracy with proportionally low standard errors of prediction. Moderate utility of NIRS to predict the NFC (R2 = 0.83) and fat content (R2 = 0.81) of TMR was observed. Rapidly, slowly, and undegraded in situ CP fractions in TMR were not well predicted by NIRS. Similarly, soluble CP, NDF CP, total ethanol-soluble carbohydrate, and in vitro NDF digestibility (% of NDF) were not well predicted by NIRS. Ratios of nutrient range to reference laboratory method error were calculated and found to be positively related (R2 = 0.84) to NIRS predictability of a given TMR nutrient, suggesting some laboratory procedures were not precise enough to yield suitable NIRS predictions. Data suggest that NIRS has utility to predict basic nutrients such as CP, NDF, starch, NFC, and fat in TMR. However, difficulty was observed using NIRS in predicting key biological nutrients in TMR such as in situ CP fractions and in vitro NDF digestibility. Difficulty of NIRS in predicting these nutrients is related to the level of reference method error in relationship to the range of nutrient values in TMR, but other sources of prediction error may exist.
Key Words: total mixed ration • near-infrared spectroscopy • in vitro • in situ
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