1. Effects of an individual weight-adjusted feeding strategy in early lactation on milk production of Holstein cows during extended lactation
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Masoomeh Taghipoor, Charlotte Gaillard, Nicolas Friggens, Jakob Sehested, J.O. Lehmann, Martin Riis Weisbjerg, Department of animal science, Aarhus University [Aarhus], Modélisation Systémique Appliquée aux Ruminants (MoSAR), AgroParisTech-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Physiologie, Environnement et Génétique pour l'Animal et les Systèmes d'Elevage [Rennes] (PEGASE), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-AGROCAMPUS OUEST, Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro), Department of agroecology, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-AgroParisTech, AGROCAMPUS OUEST-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), and Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)
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0301 basic medicine ,lactation longue ,Animal feed ,[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] ,[MATH.MATH-DS]Mathematics [math]/Dynamical Systems [math.DS] ,Biology ,Milking ,extended lactation ,03 medical and health sciences ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,bilan énergétique ,Lactation ,persistency ,Genetics ,medicine ,Animals ,Food science ,milk production ,Lactose ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS ,production de lait ,modélisation ,2. Zero hunger ,Animal fat ,Body Weight ,0402 animal and dairy science ,food and beverages ,Feeding Behavior ,04 agricultural and veterinary sciences ,Milk production ,energy balance ,Animal Feed ,040201 dairy & animal science ,Diet ,Dairying ,Milk ,030104 developmental biology ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,chemistry ,vache laitière ,Cattle ,Female ,Animal Science and Zoology ,medicine.symptom ,Weight gain ,Food Science ,Extended lactation - Abstract
Extending lactation by voluntarily delaying rebreeding aims to improve fertility and milk production in the modern dairy cow. Previous studies have shown that increased energy concentrations in the ration induced greater total milk yield and lactation persistency defined by the duration and the shape of the lactation curve. In this paper, we hypothesized that increasing the supply of energy during the early lactation mobilization period would have a positive carryover effect on milk production during extended lactation. A total of 53 Holstein cows completed a 16-mo lactation, including 30% primiparous cows. The cows were divided into 2 feeding strategies: half of the cows received a high-energy density diet (HD) in early lactation followed by a lower-energy density diet (LD; strategy HD-LD). The change in diet was defined individually after 42d of lactation, and when the live weight (LW) gain of the cow was ≥0 based on a 5-d average. The other half of the cows were fed the LD diet during the entire lactation (strategy LD-LD). Both groups received 3kg of concentrates per day during milking. Weekly milk composition (fat, protein, lactose, and somatic cells), daily milk production, daily feed intake, daily LW, and body condition score every second week were recorded. The fda package of R was used to model the curves of these different variables for the 53 cows that had a lactation over 400d. The fitted values of these curves and the associated slopes were then compared for parity and treatment effects using a linear mixed-effects model. The HD-LD and LD-LD cows had a similar length of lactation (461±7 d). The HD diet reduced the intensity of the mobilization period and increased the milk production of the multiparous cows in early lactation compared with the cows fed the LD diet. The primiparous cows used the extra energy to grow and gain weight, but not to produce more milk. After the shift in diet, the treatment had little short-term carryover effect on milk yield or LW, but it affected the slopes of some curves. From 0 to 50d from shift, milk fat content of the LD-LD cows decreased faster than that of the HD-LD cows whereas milk lactose increased. From 250 to 350d from shift, the energy-corrected milk decreased faster for the HD-LD cows than for the LD-LD cows. The lactose content in milk decreased faster for the LD-LD cows than for the HD-LD cows, and the fat content in milk was significantly higher for the primiparous HD-LD than for the primiparous LD-LD cows. In conclusion, the supply of extra energy during the mobilization period had a 300-d negative carryover effect on lactation persistency.
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- 2016
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