Abstract
Five Finnish Ayrshire cows were used in a 4 × 4 Latin square experiment designed to study the effects of graded doses of postruminal His infusion on milk production, arterial concentrations, and mammary uptakes of plasma amino acids (AA) as well as utilization of added His. Grass silage (16.9% CP) was given ad libitum with 8kg of cereal-based concentrate per day (11.3% CP). Treatments were abomasal or duodenal infusions of 250g of glucose/d in combination with 0, 2,4,or 6g of His/d. Infusions did not affect dry matter intake (mean 18kg/d). Infusion of His increased milk yield linearly from 27.0 to 28.8kg/d, protein yield from 861 to 919g/d and lactose yield from 1345 to 1457g/d. Milk fat yield and content changed in a cubic manner (1240, 1167, 1296, and 1177g/d and 4.60, 4.16, 4.60, and 4.09). Infusion of His had no influence on milk protein or lactose concentrations. Arterial Lys and His concentrations increased linearly, but other AA concentrations were unaffected as well as calculated arteriovenous differences and mammary AA uptakes. The extraction of His decreased linearly with an increasing amount of His. The utilization of added His (28%) was not affected by the level of infusion, and mammary AA uptake seemed to be regulated by an inverse relationship between arteriovenous difference of essential AA and calculated mammary plasma flow. This experiment confirmed that His is the first-limiting AA on grass silage-cereal based diets.
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