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Growth and metabolism of Kholmogor bulls under intensive growing during the milk nutrition

Abstract

At 2,5 months of age after six weeks of stay in the vivarium of the Institute Kholmogor breed bulls were divided into 2 groups of 3 animals in each. Animals got plenty concentrates and hay. In Group I base feed was tritikale-oat mixture with 10 % of corn, 17,7 soybean meal, 8,8 % sunflower-seed meal with finite mineral and vitamin supplements, and 4.5 months of age, those with diets consumed 4,93 kg DM, 42.9 MJ of metabolizable energy, 812 g of crude protein (278 g in it was undegradable protein). Calves of group II received peas, processed by autoclaving, hay and 0,5 kg of grain mixture of tritikale-oat with the introduction of mineral-vitamin supplements with the consumption of 5,22 kg of dry matter, 58,2 MJ of metabolizable energy, 1144 g of crude protein (228 g in it was undegradable protein). In group II calves at 3,5 months of age with a high consumption of relatively low compared to calves in group I (46,3%) activity of pyruvate carboxylase before feeding at almost equal concentrations of glucose in the blood plasma indicated the synthesis of glucose from amino acids and more starch intake in the intestinal. Significantly higher activity of lactatedehydrogenase in the blood plasma of group I calves should lead to an increase in concentration of pyruvate and pyruvate carboxylase activity, as shown in relation to pyruvate carboxylase in the experiment. At this level of feeding daily gain during the period was in group I of 1241 ± 120, in group II - 7,2 % lower. Determination of creatinine and urine in daily urine showed that more calves of group II excreted undigested nitrogen. When transferring the calves at the lower feeding rates the enzyme activity in blood plasma of calves of both groups become equal, indicating a predominantly rated using of pyruvate in the Krebs cycle. At the same time the average daily gain decreased in both groups in proportion relative to the preceding weighed (group I - 79,9%, group II - 79,1 %).

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Galochkina V.P., Solodkova A.V. Growth and metabolism of Kholmogor bulls under intensive growing during the milk nutrition. Zootechnical Science of Belarus. 2012;47(2):19-31. (In Russ.)

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