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FAPEMIG - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior Outra Agência The goal of this study was to evaluate the ruminal metabolic parameters and milk fatty acid composition of cows managed under continuous grazing on Marandu grass. Four rumen-cannulated Holstein x Gyr cows with an average milk yield of 21±2 kg day-1 and 79±16 days in milk were used in a 4 x 4 Latin Square design. Each cow received 6 kg day-1 of a concentrate formulated with 0 (control), 1.3, 2.6 or 3.9 kg of roasted soybeans (as-fed basis), which were the experimental treatments. The inclusion of roasted soybeans promoted a linear reduction in the acetate concentration, with no effect on the pH and ruminal ammonia N concentration. There was no effect of the treatments on the ruminal degradability of the dry matter and neutral detergent fiber of Marandu grass or on the kinetic parameters of the fluids in the rumen. There were linear increases in the contents of fat and total solids in the milk and a linear decrease in the milk lactose content, but there was no effect of the treatments on the yield of these components or on milk yield. There were linear increases in milk fat stearic, elaidic, oleic, linoleic and ?-linolenic acids contents, but there was no effect of the treatments on the milk fat contents of vaccenic and rumenic acids. Notably, supplementing Marandu grass with a concentrate containing up to 3.9 kg of roasted soybeans improved the nutritional quality of the milk fat due to increases in the milk fat contents of oleic and ?-linolenic acids, which are considered beneficial to human health, and reductions in the levels of lauric, myristic and palmitic, which are considered hypercholesterolemic fatty acids. Objetivou-se neste estudo avaliar parâmetros de metabolismo no rúmen e o perfil de ácidos graxos do leite de vacas manejadas sob pastejo contínuo em capim-Marandu. Foram utilizadas quatro vacas mestiças Holandês x Gir com 79±16 dias de lactação, produzindo 21±2 kg dia-1 de leite, canuladas no rúmen e alocadas em delineamento Quadrado Latino 4 x 4. Cada vaca recebeu 6 kg dia-1 de concentrado formulado com 0 (Controle); 1,3; 2,6 ou 3,9 kg de grão de soja tostado (base matéria natural), que consistiram nos tratamentos experimentais. A inclusão de grão de soja tostado promoveu redução linear na concentração de acetato, sem efeito sobre o pH e a concentração de N amoniacal no rúmen. Não houve efeito dos tratamentos sobre a degradabilidade ruminal da matéria seca e da fibra em detergente neutro do pasto, nem sobre os parâmetros da cinética de fluidos no rúmen. Houve incremento linear nos teores de gordura e de sólidos totais e redução linear no teor de lactose do leite, mas não houve efeito dos tratamentos sobre as produções destes componentes nem sobre a produção de leite. Houve incremento linear nos teores dos ácidos graxos esteárico, elaídico, oleico, linoleico e α-linolênico no leite, mas não houve efeito dos tratamentos sobre os teores no leite dos ácidos vacênico e rumênico. A suplementação do pasto de capim-Marandu com concentrado contendo até 3,9 kg de grão de soja tostado melhorou a qualidade nutricional da gordura do leite, com aumento nos teores dos ácidos oleico e α-linolênico, benéficos à saúde humana, e redução dos teores dos ácidos graxos hipercolesterolêmicos láurico, mirístico e palmítico.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the ruminal parameters of fermentation and degradation, kinetic flow of rumen digesta, and milk fatty acid composition of cows fed 52% chopped elephantgrass-based diets containing 0.0% (control), 1.5%, 3.0% and 4.5% soybean oil (SO) on a dry matter (DM) basis. Four rumen-cannulated Holstein x Gyr dairy cows with an average milk production of 15.6 ± 3.0 kg day-1 and 90 ± 25 days in milk were allocated in a 4 x 4 Latin square design. The results were analyzed by mixed models. Significant differences were declared at P ? 0.05, and P-values from 0.05 < P ? 0.10 were considered as a trend. The inclusion of SO in the diet had no effect on the ruminal pH or total volatile fatty acid concentration, but there was a quadratic effect on the ruminal ammonia nitrogen content and a trend for a linear reduction (P = 0.07) in the molar proportion of rumen acetate. Linear reductions were also observed in the DM and neutral detergent fiber (NDF) effective degradabilities of elephantgrass forage, but the fluid and particulate passage rates in the rumen and the DM and NDF intakes were unchanged by SO inclusion in the diet. Milk production, protein and lactose contents and yields were unaltered by dietary SO levels. There were linear reductions in the milk fat and total solids contents, but there was no effect of dietary treatments on their yields. The inclusion of soybean oil in the diet of Holstein x Gyr cows fed chopped elephantgrass improved the nutritional quality of milk fat as a result of increased contents of oleic, rumenic and vaccenic acids, which are beneficial to human health, and a concomitant reduction in hypercholesterolemic saturated fatty acids such as lauric, myristic and palmitic acids.