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Nutritional and productive performance of dairy cows fed corn silage or sugarcane silage with or without additives

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The objective of this study was to compare the intake, digestibility, and performance of dairy cows fed corn silage, fresh sugarcane, and sugarcane ensiled in three different forms. Twenty-five Holstein cows at 114 ± 12.6 days in milk (DIM) were used. A randomized block design was adopted, using an arrangement of repeated measures over time. The following treatments were tested: corn silage (CS); fresh sugarcane (FS); sugarcane silage without additives (SCS); sugarcane silage enriched with calcium oxide at 5 g/kg of forage (SCSc); and sugarcane silage enriched with Lactobacillus buchneri at 5 × 104 cfu/kg of forage (SCSb). The roughage to concentrate ratio was 60:40 for the CS diet and 40:60 for the sugarcane-based diets. The dry matter intake (DMI) as a function of body weight had a downward trend for the cows fed sugarcane silage, compared with those fed FS. The sugarcane silages had higher digestibilities of dry matter (DM), organic matter (OM), and neutral detergent fiber (NDFap), compared with FS. The use of L. buchneri or calcium oxide improved the diet’s digestibility. The use of FS, sugarcane silage, or sugarcane silage with additives had no effects on milk and fat-corrected milk yield, compared to corn silage. Cows fed FS presented lower milk total solids content and had a downward trend for milk fat, compared with cows fed sugarcane-silage diets. Cows fed sugarcane silages produced milk with higher casein stability in the alcohol test than cows fed fresh-sugarcane diet. Sugarcane silage, with or without additives, did not reduce the intake of dairy cows, and the use of additives improved the fiber’s digestibility.

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We are grateful to the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) for funding this study.

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  1. Department of Animal Science, Federal University of Viçosa, 36570-900, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil

    Felipe Leite de Andrade, João Paulo Pacheco Rodrigues, Edenio Detmann, Sebastião de Campos Valadares Filho, Marcelo Messias Duarte Castro, Aline Souza Trece, Tadeu Eder Silva & Marcos Inácio Marcondes

  2. Department of Animal Science, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul State, 91540-000, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

    Vivian Fischer

  3. Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture, Humboldt University Berlin, Invalidenstraße 42, 10 115, Berlin, Germany

    Kirsten Weiss

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Andrade, F.L., Rodrigues, J.P.P., Detmann, E. et al. Nutritional and productive performance of dairy cows fed corn silage or sugarcane silage with or without additives. Trop Anim Health Prod 48, 747–753 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11250-016-1020-y

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