Digestion, feed intake, live weight gain by cattle consuming bermudagrass hay supplemented with whey.
1992
Galloway D.L. | Goetsch A.L. | Sun W. | Forster L.A. Jr. | Murphy G.E. | Grant E.W. | Johnson Z.B.
Three experiments were conducted with cattle consuming bermudagrass hay to determine whether low-level supplements of whey alone, corn alone, or whey plus corn affect feed intake, digestion, and(or) BW gain. Six ruminally and duodenally cannulated beef cows (574 kg), used in a Latin-square trial (Exp. 1), were fed bermudagrass hay without supplementation (control or with 2.8% whey (low whey, LW), 5.6% whey (high whey, HW), 17.4% ground corn (C), 2.8% whey plus 14.9% corn (C-LW), or 5.6% whey plus 12.4% corn (C-HW). Supplementing with whey and(or) corn increased ruminal butyrate (8.8, 9.4, 10.0, 9.6, 10.5, and 11.0 mol of total VFA for control, LW, HW, C, C-LW, and C-HW, respectively; SE = 0.20). Supplements did not affect microbial N flow at the duodenum. Six Holstein steer calves (158 kg) in a Latin square (Exp. 2) consumed bermudagrass hay ad libitum alone (control or with 0.075, or 0.15% BW whey (LW and HW, respectively), 0.5% BW ground corn (C), or corn-whey mixes made by substituting whey for corn (C-LW and C-HW). Substituting 0.15% BW of whey for corn increased (P < 0.05) total OM intake slightly (3.99, 3.84, 3.75, 4.11, 4.28, and 4.47 kg for control, LW, HW, C, C-LW, and C-HW, respectively; SE = 0.10). In an 84-d randomized block experiment (Exp. 3), 96 beef calves (194 kg) consumed (ad libitum) low-quality bermudagrass hay alone or with C, LW, HW, C-LW, or C-HW supplements. Daily BW gain ranked (P < 0.05) control < LW and HW < C, and C-LW < C-HW (0, 0.09, 0.15, 0.24, 0.28, and 0.36 kg, respectively). Substituting whey for corn increased total and digestible OM intake slightly, and addition of low amounts of whey to low-quality bermudagrass hay increased BW gain.
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