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Journal of Animal Science, Vol 71, Issue 7 1947-1956, Copyright © 1993 by American Society of Animal Science

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Maintenance requirements in metabolizable energy of adult, nonpregnant, nonlactating Charolais cows

I. Ortigues, M. Petit, J. Agabriel and M. Vermorel
Laboratoire Croissance et Metabolismes des Herbivores, INRA, Theix, Saint Genes Champanelle, France.

The objective of this study was to determine the maintenance requirements in metabolizable energy (MEm) of adult, nonlactating, nonpregnant Charolais cows. A feeding trial was conducted using 12 cows fed at one of two feeding levels (75 [L] and 113 [H] kcal of ME.kg BW-.75.d-1) for 116 d. Body composition was estimated from subcutaneous adipocyte diameter. Body weight changes averaged -468 and +46 g/d, respectively. Diet DM digestibility averaged .496. The L cows spent less time eating and ruminating but had other behavioral characteristics similar to those of H cows. Estimates of MEm were calculated from BW or body composition changes and amounted to 109 and 124 kcal of ME.kg BW-.75.d-1, respectively. Heat production (HP) was then measured over 67 d in a second trial on two L and two H cows from the feeding trial and planes of feeding were switched after 14 d. Estimates of MEm varied from 112 to 105 kcal.kg BW-.75.d-1. Within animal, day-to-day variations in heat production were high (4.6% on average) and prevented the detection of any precise changes of HP with time on treatment. None of the trials showed any significant effect of level of feeding on MEm.


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