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Journal of Animal Science, Vol 68, Issue 11 3773-3779, Copyright © 1990 by American Society of Animal Science

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Performance and plasma amino acids of growing calves fed corn silage supplemented with ground soybeans, fishmeal and rumen-protected lysine

G. M. Davenport, J. A. Boling and N. Gay
University of Kentucky, Lexington 40546-0215.

A 100-d growth study was conducted to evaluate performance and plasma amino acid (AA) responses of 96 crossbred beef calves (220 kg) with ad libitum access to corn silage and supplemented with ground soybeans (GSB) with or without added fishmeal (FM) and (or) rumen-protected lysine (Lys). Calves were allotted by breed, sex and weight to four treatments with three replicate pens of eight calves per pen. The treatments were: GSB, GSB + Lys, GSB + FM and GSB + FM + Lys. The isonitrogenous supplements were top-dressed on corn silage once daily at a level of 2.27 kg/hd, with FM providing one-half of the supplemental N in FM-containing supplements. The Lys-containing supplements provided a daily intake of 6.0 g/hd of rumen-protected Lys. Dry matter intake was similar (P less than .10) for all treatments. Overall ADG and feed efficiency of GSB calves averaged .83 kg/d and 7.39 kg feed/kg gain, respectively, and were 14% lower than the mean of calves fed supplements containing FM and(or) Lys. Lysine was not the principal factor limiting growth because the inclusion of Lys alone in the GSB-containing supplements did not improve (P greater than .10) ADG, feed efficiency or plasma AA concentrations. In contrast, FM supplementation increased (P less than .05) ADG, feed efficiency and plasma concentrations of total AA, total essential AA and total nonessential AA. The inclusion of Lys in the GSB + FM-containing supplement resulted in no further improvement (P greater than .10) in performance.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)


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