Influence of cold-pressed canola, brewers grains and hominy meal asdietary supplements suitable for reducing enteric methane emissionsfrom lactating dairy cowsThere are limited data in the literature concerning in vivo effects of dietary fat supplementationon enteric CH4 emissions from lactating dairy cows. The purpose of this experimentwas to evaluate four dietary treatments designated as control (CON), brewers grains (BG),hominy meal and cold-pressed canola (HCC) and hominy meal only (HM) for their effects onCH4 emissions and milk production. Sixteen late lactation Holstein cows were used in pairs,in a double 4×4 Latin square experiment with the four dietary treatments fed as total mixedrations over 24 d treatment periods. All diets contained∼600 g forage/kg dry matter (DM;5 kg DM of alfalfa hay and 7 kg DM of perennial ryegrass silage/day). The CON diet contained303 g/kg DM of cracked wheat grain and 70 g/kg DM of solvent extracted canola meal andthe CON diet was formulated to contain∼26 g total fat/kg DM. For the BG, HCC and HM diets,part of the cracked wheat and solvent extracted canola was substituted with the designatedfat supplement so that the resulting diets contained 51, 52 and 65 g total fat/kg DM respectively.Fat supplementation did not influence DM intake and there were only small (P<0.05)positive effects on milk yield and negative effects on concentrations of milk fat and milk protein.The HM diet reduced (P<0.05) CH4 emissions when expressed either as g CH4/cow/d,g CH4/kg DM intake, or g CH4/L milk. The BG diet also (P<0.05) reduced CH4 emissions whenexpressed as g CH4/cow/d or g CH4/L milk, while the HCC diet decreased CH4 emissions interms of g CH4/L milk. Combining data from the fat supplemented diets enabled comparisonof CH4 emissions from the CON diet with CH4 emissions from the fat supplementeddiets. Fat supplementation reduced (P<0.05) CH4 emissions: 500, 462 g CH4/cow/d; 25.0,23.2 g CH4/kg DM intake and 23.3, 20.5 g CH4/L milk for the CON and fat supplementedgroups respectively. Similarly, by combining data from all fat supplemented groups, regressionanalysis revealed that fat supplementation reduced CH4 emissions for at least 7 wk.Combining results of this investigation with data from the literature, we conclude that foreach increase of 10 g/kg DM in dietary lipid concentration, enteric emissions are reduced by0.79 g CH4/kg DM intake or∼3.5% thereby allowing estimation of the magnitude of entericCH4 abatement based on dietary fat supplementation.Abbreviations:
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