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The effect of dietary energy source on serum concentration of insulin-like growth factor-I, growth hormone, insulin, glucose, and fat metabolites in weanling horses¹

Department of Animal Sciences and Industry, Kansas State University, Manhattan 66506-0201

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253 Weber Hall (phone: 785-532-1238; fax: 785-532-7059; E-mail:
eminton{at}oznet.ksu.edu).

Feeding diets high in soluble carbohydrates to growing horses has been implicated in the development of orthopedic diseases; as a result, substitution of dietary fat for soluble carbohydrates has received attention. Because IGF-I is integral to growth and cartilage development and because it is influenced by nutrition, we evaluated the effect of dietary fat substitution on metabolic endpoints and circulating GH and IGF-I in growing horses. Twelve Quarter Horse weanlings, four female and eight male, 151 to 226 d old, were blocked by sex and age and assigned to two treatment groups. Group one (CARB; n = six) was fed a concentrate containing 2.21% fat and 33.9% starch; group two (FAT; n = six) was fed a concentrate containing 10.3% fat and 24.0% starch. Both concentrates contained 3.0 Mcal/kg of DE and 16% CP. Brome hay also was fed. Diets were fed at 0800 and 1600 for 60 d. On d 0, 30, and 60, blood samples were obtained via a jugular catheter from 1 h before until 5 h after the morning feeding. Serum was analyzed for glucose, insulin, GH, IGF-I, NEFA, and total cholesterol (CHOL). Neither ADG (0.85 ± 0.04 and 0.84 ± 0.04 kg) nor concentrate DMI (4.04 ± 0.12 and 4.03 ± 0.12 kg/d) differed between treatments. There were consistent increases in glucose and insulin in response to feeding on d 0, 30, and 60 for both groups. On d 30, the glucose response to feeding was less (P = 0.07) over time in FAT vs. CARB; however, there were no significant treatment x time effects on d 0 or 60. On d 60, the insulin response to feeding was less (P < 0.05) over time in FAT compared with CARB; however, there was no treatment x time effect on d 0 or 30. Serum CHOL concentrations did not differ between groups on d 0. Horses in the FAT group had increased CHOL concentrations on d 30 and 60 compared with CARB (P < 0.01). Although treatment x time interactions were noted for GH on d 30 and 60 (P < 0.05), only transient and inconsistent differences in the secretory profiles between CARB and FAT treatments were evident at those sampling times. Serum NEFA and IGF-I did not differ between treatments on d 0, 30, or 60. These results suggest that dietary energy source, at least at the level used in this study, did not affect foal growth performance or serum IGF-I and NEFA concentrations. Fat substitution increased serum CHOL and variably affected serum GH, glucose, and insulin concentrations in response to feeding.

Key Words: Dietary Fat • Horses • Insulin-Like Growth Factor • Somatotropin

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