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The hypothesized that the dietary inclusion of different lipid sources does not alter diet quality, feed intake, and, consequently, milk yield of cows. Thus, this study aimed to evaluate the effects of supplemental lipid sources for early lactation crossbred cows on milk yield, intake, and diet quality through in vitro digestibility and fermentation kinetics, and to demonstrate which variables have the most impact on each diet using principal component analysis (PCA). Five early lactating crossbred ¾ Holstein × ¼ Gir cows (35 ± 8 days in milk), with a mean body weight of 410 ± 7.15 kg of body weight, were randomly allotted to a 5 × 5 Latin square. The treatments consisted of five experimental diets: a control diet with no additional lipid source and four diets with different lipid sources: cottonseed (242.6 g/kg of dry matter (DM)), sunflower seed (243.0 g/kg of DM), whole soybeans (234.0 g/kg of DM), and soybean oil (42.0 g/kg of DM), which were included at a rate to provide 70 g/kg of lipid. Diets with no additional lipid source and containing whole soybeans had higher DM, OM, and CP digestibility than other treatments. The diet containing soybean oil had the highest EE digestibility. Gas production was highest in the diet containing soybean oil. The dietary treatments did not affect DM intake. Milk yield was lower in cows receiving diets containing cottonseed. Whole soybeans can be included in diets for lactating cows to increase the energy intake without impairing the feed intake and milk yield.
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We would like to thank the Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS); Universidade Estadual de Mato Grosso do Sul (UEMS); and Universidade Católica Dom Bosco (UCDB). The financial support of Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico—CNPq under Grant 449011/2014-3; Fundação de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento do Ensino, Ciência e Tecnologia do Estado de Mato Grosso do Sul (BR)—FUNDECT under Grant 59/300.122/2015; and Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior—CAPES under Grant Financing Code 001.
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AM Wanderley and LCV Ítavo conceived and designed research and wrote the manuscript.
GT dos Santos, CCBF Ítavo, CS Cunha, GS Difante, AM Dias, and MVM de Oliveira involved in the discussion of results and reviewed the manuscript.
AM Wanderley and RG Mateus conducted experiment, laboratorial analysis, and collection of samples.
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Wanderley, A.M., Ítavo, L.C.V., dos Santos, G.T. et al. Ruminal degradation kinetics of diets with different lipid sources and its influence on intake and milk yield of early lactation crossbred Holstein × Gir cows. Trop Anim Health Prod 53, 516 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11250-021-02960-4
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