Corn grain endosperm type and brown midrib 3 corn silage: ruminal fermentation and N partitioning in lactating cows.

Interactions of endosperm type of corn grain and the brown midrib 3 mutation (bm3) in corn silage on ruminal fermentation and microbial efficiency of lactating dairy cows were evaluated. Eight ruminally and duodenally cannulated cows (72 +/- 8 d in milk; mean +/- SD) were used in a duplicated 4 x 4 Latin square design experiment with a 2 x 2 factorial arrangement of treatments. Treatments were corn grain endosperm type (floury or vitreous) and corn silage type (bm3 or isogenic normal). Diets contained 26% neutral detergent fiber and 30% starch. Increasing ruminal starch digestibility by replacing vitreous corn grain with floury grain reduced mean and minimum ruminal pH. Brown midrib 3 corn silage reduced mean and minimum ruminal pH and increased total volatile fatty acid concentration. Ruminal pH was positively associated with rate of valerate absorption. Although floury endosperm reduced acetate:propionate ratio in both control and bm3 corn silage diets, it had a greater effect on reducing acetate:propionate ratio for control silage compared with bm3 corn silage. Nonammonia N flow to the duodenum did not differ among treatments and no effects of treatment were detected for microbial N and nonammonia, nonmicrobial N flow. Although treatment effects on ruminal fermentation and ruminal pH were observed, few interactions of treatment were detected and treatments did not affect flow of N fractions to the intestines.

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