Deviation of Nutrient Intake of Lactating Cow Herds Fed Total Mixed Ration:Reason Analysis and Effects on Production Performance

LI Jiwei; LIN Xueyan; WANG Yun; HU Zhiyong; LIU Guimei; WU Zhiqiang; WANG Zhonghua

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1006-267x.2016.04.032

2016 , Vol. 28 >Issue 4: 1208 - 1216

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3969/j.issn.1006-267x.2016.04.032

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Deviation of Nutrient Intake of Lactating Cow Herds Fed Total Mixed Ration:Reason Analysis and Effects on Production Performance

LI Jiwei ,
LIN Xueyan ,
WANG Yun ,
HU Zhiyong ,
LIU Guimei ,
WU Zhiqiang ,
WANG Zhonghua

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College of Animal Science and Technology, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an 271018, China

Received date: 2015-11-04

Online published: 2016-04-11

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This experiment analyzed the reason for deviation of nutrient intake of lactating cow herds fed total mixed ration(TMR) and the effects on production performance. Thirty cow herds with high milk yield were chosen and sampled for 5 days per herd. TMR and refusal feed samples were collected to assess nutrient composition and particle size distribution, and the coefficients of variation(CVs) of indexes were calculated. Milk yield was recorded, and milk sample was detected for milk composition. A multiple linear regression analysis between CVs of nutrients/particle sizes and production performance of cow herds was carried out. The results showed as follows:net energy for lactation(NE_L) and the contents of crude protein(CP), NDF、ADF, microbial protein(MCP), ruminal undegradable protein(RUP), ruminal balance of energy and nitrogen(RENB), small intestinal digestible protein(DCPSI) and calcium(Ca) of TMR for 30 cow herds were 6.56 MJ/kg, 16.22%, 35.71%, 21.38%, 77.84 g/kg, 92.15 g/kg, 14.77 g/kg, 104.04 g/kg and 1.43% respectively, among which NDF(1.94%), Ca(0.57%), RUP(5.03 g/kg) and RENB(6.95 g/kg) were higher than formula target values, and CP(-0.36%), ADF(-1.54%), NE_L(-0.12MJ/kg), MCP(-7.71 g/kg) and DCPSI(-2.12 g/kg) were lower than formula target values(positive value indicate increase, and negative value indicate decrease). During the observation period, CVs of RUP [(16.26±7.10)%], MCP [(22.78±13.38)%], RENB [(64.29±34.29)%] were more than 10%, and those of the other nutrients were less than 10%. CVs of long, medium, short and fine particles were(15.78±9.25)%,(9.12±7.86)%,(6.00±4.00)% and(11.15±9.62)%, respectively. The regression analysis showed that variation of TMR nutrients and particle sizes affected milk yield and milk composition. Every 1-percentage-point increase in CV of NE_L resulted in decreasing of 3.662 kg/d for milk yield. Every 1-percentage-point increase in CV of long particles resulted in decreasing of 0.124 kg/d for milk yield and increasing of 0.012% for milk fat percentage. The results indicate that the reason for difference between TMR nutrient intakes of lactating cows and formula nutrients lies in inaccurate feeding, unstable processing quality, mixing uniformity, and feed sorting. The stability of TMR processing quality can affect milk yield and milk composition, among which the variation of NE_L, DCPSI and RENB affects milk yield, and that of long particles influences both milk yield and milk fat percentage.

Key words： total mixed ration; deviation of nutrient intake; feed sorting; mixing uniformity; production performance

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LI Jiwei , LIN Xueyan , WANG Yun , HU Zhiyong , LIU Guimei , WU Zhiqiang , WANG Zhonghua . Deviation of Nutrient Intake of Lactating Cow Herds Fed Total Mixed Ration:Reason Analysis and Effects on Production Performance[J]. Chinese Journal of Animal Nutrition, 2016 , 28(4) : 1208 -1216 . DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1006-267x.2016.04.032

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