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Ruminal And Plasma Responses In Dairy Cows To Drenching Or Feeding Glycerol, Peter Linke
Ruminal And Plasma Responses In Dairy Cows To Drenching Or Feeding Glycerol, Peter Linke
The Journal of Undergraduate Research
Four Holstein dairy cows (137 DIM, 60 kg milk/d) were used in a Latin square with 1-wk periods to evaluate the effect of methods of oral delivery of glycerol on ruminal VFA and plasma concentrations of glucose, 6-hydroxybutyrate (BHBA), nonesterified fatty acids (NEFA), and insulin. All cows were fed only grass hay for ad libitum consumption during 12 h before the experiment. At the start of the experiment, time 0, all cows were fed 5 kg of cracked corn. Treatments administered at time 0 were: 1) control (C), no glycerol; 2) fed glycerol (F), 1 kg of glycerol solution (80% …