Dietary fatty acid and starch content and supplemental lysine supply affect energy and nitrogen utilization in lactating Jersey cows
- 1 October 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Dairy Science Association in Journal of Dairy Science
- Vol. 104 (10), 10753-10779
- https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2020-20055
Abstract
The effects of dietary fatty acid (FA) and starch content as well as supplemental digestible Lys (sdLys) on production, energy utilization, and N utilization were evaluated. Each factor was fed at 5 different amounts, and factor limits were as follows: 3.0 to 6.2% of dry matter (DM) for FA; 20.2 to 31.3% of DM for starch, and 0 to 17.8 g/d of sdLys. Dietary FA and starch were increased by replacing soyhulls with supplemental fat and corn grain, respectively, and sdLys increased with rumen-protected Lys. Fifteen unique treatments were fed to 25 Jersey cows (mean +/- SD; 80 +/- 14 d in milk) across 3 blocks in a partially balanced incomplete block design. Each block consisted of 4 periods of 28 d, where the final 4 d were used to determine milk production and composition, feed intake, energy utilization (via total collection and headbox-style indirect calorimetry), and N utilization (via total collection). Response surface models were used to evaluate treatment responses. Increasing dietary FA decreased DM intake and milk protein yield. When dietary starch was less than 24%, milk protein concentration increased with increasing sdLys, but when dietary starch was greater than 26% milk protein concentration decreased with increasing sdLys. Digestibility of FA increased when dietary FA increased from 3.0 to 4.2% and decreased as FA increased beyond 4.2%. Although neutral detergent fiber digestibility decreased as dietary starch increased, energy digestibility increased. As dietary FA increased, metabolizable energy (ME) content quadratically increased. Supply of ME increased as dietary FA increased from 3.0 to 4.2% and decreased as FA increased beyond 4.2%. Increasing dietary FA and starch decreased CH4 production and urinary energy. Increasing dietary starch increased the efficiency of utilizing dietary N for milk N. Increasing sdLys quadratically decreased N balance as sdLys increased from 0 to 8 g/d and increased N balance as sdLys increased from 8 to 18 g/d. Increasing dietary FA can increase ME content, however, at high dietary FA, decreased DM intake and FA digestibility resulted in a plateau in ME content and a decrease in ME supply. Our results demonstrate that sdLys supply is important for milk protein when dietary starch is low, and some Lys may be preferentially used for muscle protein synthesis at the expense of milk protein when sdLys is high.Keywords
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