Hostname: page-component-77c89778f8-9q27g Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-20T02:21:42.189Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The effect of supplements of sucrose and of glucose monohydrate on the milk production and live weight of dairy cows

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

W. H. Broster ,
J. D. Sutton ,
T. Smith ,
Valerie J. Broster  and
C. C. Balch
W. H. Broster
Affiliation:
National Institute for Research in Dairying, University of Beading
J. D. Sutton
Affiliation:
National Institute for Research in Dairying, University of Beading
T. Smith
Affiliation:
National Institute for Research in Dairying, University of Beading
Valerie J. Broster
Affiliation:
National Institute for Research in Dairying, University of Beading
C. C. Balch
Affiliation:
National Institute for Research in Dairying, University of Beading
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Summary

Three experiments on the effects of sugars on milk production and live weight of cows are described. Two experiments each with twelve cows were of latin square design with 5-week periods. The third was a continuous treatment experiment of 11 weeks duration with twenty cows. All the animals were in mid-lactation. Performance on the basal diet of hay and concentrates was compared to that when the basal diet was supplemented with 10·7 Meal digestible energy daily in the form of sucrose or glucose monohydrate or concentrates.

Additional concentrates regularly increased milk yield, live-weight gain, solids-not-fat content of the milk, and yields of solids-not-fat and milk fat. Fat content of the milk was not affected.

Sucrose had a small beneficial effect on milk yield; the effect of glucose monohydrate on yield was small and indecisive. Sucrose depressed milk fat percentage; the effect of glucose on milk fat percentage varied between experiments. Both sugars increased solids-not-fat content of the milk, solids-not-fat yield, and rate of live-weight gain.

Over the longer treatment period in the third experiment milk fat content tended to recover partially for both sugar-supplemented rations. The effects on yield of milk and of milk fat did not alter. The effects on live-weight gain were established more decisively and the final order of the size of the beneficial effect of the supplements was: concentrates, glucose monohydrate, sucrose.

At the end of the third experiment rumen, contents from all cows were sampled by stomach tube. The concentrates supplement had no effect on the proportions of volatile fatty acids. Both sugars depressed the proportion of acetic acid and increased the proportions of propionic, butyric and valeric acids. In all cases except that of butyric acid, where the reverse occurred, the effect of sucrose was greater than that of glucose monohydrate.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 74 , Issue 2 , April 1970 , pp. 217 - 225
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1970

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

Armstrong, D. G. & Blaxter, K. L. (1965). Effects of acetic and propionic acids on energy retention and milk secretion in goats. EAAP 3rd Symposium on Energy metabolism, London: Academic Press, p. 59–72.Google Scholar
Armstrong, D. G., Blaxter, K. L., Graham, N. McC. & Watnman, F. W. (1958). The utilization of the energy of two mixtures of steam-volatile fatty acids by fattening sheep. Br. J. Nutr. 12, 177–88.Google Scholar
Bowman, R. L. & Huber, J. T. (1967). Effect of dietary lactose on milk composition and rumen volatile fatty acids. J. Dairy Sci. 50, 579–81.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Broster, W. H., Broster, Valerie J. & Smith, T. (1969). Experiments on the nutrition of the dairy heifer. VIII. Effect on milk production of level of intake at two stages of the lactation. J. agric. Sci., Camb. 72, 229–45.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Broster, W. H., Tuck, Valerie J., Smith, T. & Johnson, V. W. (1969). Experiments on the nutrition of the dairy heifer. VII. Observations on the effect of the energy intake on the utilisation of protein in growth and in lactation. J. agric. Sci., Camb. 72, 13–30.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Cochran, W. G. & Cox, Gertrude M. (1964). Experimental Designs, 2nd edition. New York: John Wiley and Co.Google Scholar
Lampila, M. (1967). The composition and caloric value of the volatile fatty acid mixture of the bovine rumen fluid on five diets. Suom. maatal. Seur. Julk. 109, 121–35.Google Scholar
Lofgreen, G. P. & Otagaki, K. K. (1960). The net energy of blackstrap molasses for lactating dairy cows. J. Dairy Sci. 43, 220–30.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Nehring, K., Schiemann, R., Hoffmann, L., Klutel, W. & Jentsch, W. (1965). Utilisation of the energy of cellulose and sucrose by cattle, sheep and pigs. EAAP 3rd Symposium on Energy metabolism, London: Academic Press, p. 249–61.Google Scholar
Ørskov, E. R. & Oltjen, R. R. (1967). Influence of carbohydrate and nitrogen sources on the rumen volatile fatty acids and ethanol of cattle fed purified diets. J. Nutr. 93, 222–8.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Orth, A. & Kaufmann, W. (1961). Die Verdauung im Pansen und ihre Bedeutung für die Fütterung der Wiederkäuer. Hamburg and Berlin: Paul Parey.Google Scholar
Owen, F. G., Kellogg, D. W. & Howard, W. T. (1967). Effect of molasses in normal and high-grain rations on utilization of nutrients for lactation. J. Dairy Sci. 50, 1120–25.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rook, J. A. F. & Balch, C. C. (1961). The effects of intraruminal infusions of acetic, propionic and butyric acids on the yield and composition of the milk of the cow. Br. J. Nutr. 15, 361–9.Google Scholar
Rook, J. A. F., Balch, C. C. & Johnson, V. W. (1965). Further observations on the effects of intraruminal infusions of volatile fatty acids and of lactic acid on the yield and composition of the milk of the cow. Br. J. Nutr. 19, 93–9.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Seidler, S., Frens, A. M. & Van Adrichem, P. W. M. (1963). Einfluss einiger Faktoren auf NH3, Roheiweiss-, Trockensubstanz-, Asche-, Zucker-, Fettsaure- Werte im Pansensaft und Mg- und Harnstoff- Werte im Blutserum. Z. Tierphysiol. Tierernähr. Futtermittelk. 18, 193–209.Google Scholar
Sutton, J. D. (1968). The fermentation of soluble carbohydrates in rumen contents of cows fed diets containing a large proportion of hay. Br. J. Nutr. 22, 689–712.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Sutton, J. D. (1969). The fermentation of soluble carbohydrates in rumen contents of cows fed diets containing a large proportion of flaked maize. Br. J. Nutr. 23, 567–83.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sutton, J. D. & Johnson, V. W. (1969). (Unpublished.)Google Scholar
Woodman, H. E. (1957). Rations for livestock. Bull. Minisl. Agric. Fish Fd, Lond. 48.Google Scholar