Effect of Corn Distillers Solubles and Brewers Dried Grains with Yeast in Urea-Containing Rations on Steer Performance

Hatch, C. F.; Perry, T. W.; Mohler, M. T.; Beeson, W. M.

doi:10.2527/jas1972.342326x

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“…Brewers grains consist of extracted residues of grains used in the brewing process. Dried brewers grains (DBG) contain about 30% crude protein and have been used successfully as feed for livestock (Hatch et al, 1972;Porter and Conrad, 1975;Merchen et al, 1979). Feedlot operators and dairymen have fed wet brewers grains (WBG) in recent years because of increased availability resulting from the greater energy costs of producing DBG.…”

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Effect of Feeding Wet Brewers Grains to Beef Heifers on Wintering Performance, Serum Selenium and Reproductive Performance

Crickenberger

Johnson

1982

Journal of Animal Science

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Wet brewers grains (WBG) were evaluated as a feed source for growing Angus heifers (201 kg, 313 d of age) during a 112-d wintering trial. Effects on growth, feed efficiency, serum Se and first breeding performance were examined. Three replications of four heifers each were fed the following diets: (1) corn silage with no protein supplement (CSNS); (2) corn silage plus 33.8% of the diet dry matter (DM) from WBG (CSWBG), and (3) WBG, corn and fescue hay at 62.2, 10.8 and 26.1% of diet DM, respectively (WBGCH). Average daily gains for heifers fed CSNS, CSWBG and WBGCH were .50, .73 and .56 kg/head (P less than .05), and DM:gain ratios were 9.52, 6.34 and 6.13 (P less than .05), respectively. Serum Se concentrations were higher (P less than .01) in heifers fed diets containing WBG than in heifers fed CSNS. Serum Se concentrations were also influenced by sampling time (P less than .01) and the diet x sampling time interaction (P less than .05). At the end of the trial, serum Se concentrations were .050, .085 and .105 ppm (P less than .01), respectively, for heifers on the three dietary treatments. Following a 66-d breeding period, 12 of 12 heifers fed CSNS and WBGCH diets and 10 of 12 heifers fed CSWBG were diagnosed pregnant and subsequently calved.

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Effect of Feeding Wet Brewers Grains to Beef Heifers on Wintering Performance, Serum Selenium and Reproductive Performance

Crickenberger

Johnson

1982

Journal of Animal Science

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“…Inclusion of DDGS resulted in lower NH 3 -N production compared with CON, in contrast to results by Leupp et al (2009). Rumen microbes can be very efficient at converting animal protein to bacterial protein, especially when provided distillers solubles (Hatch et al, 1972).…”

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Effects of dietary roughage and sulfur in diets containing corn dried distillers grains with solubles on hydrogen sulfide production and fermentation by rumen microbes in vitro

Binversie

Ruiz‐Moreno

Carpenter

et al. 2016

Journal of Animal Science

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Dried distillers grains with solubles (DDGS) have been used in production animal diets; however, overuse of DDGS can cause toxic concentrations of ruminal hydrogen sulfide gas (HS), resulting in polioencephalomalacia, a deleterious brain disease. Because HS gas requires an acidic rumen environment and diet can influence ruminal pH, it has been postulated that dietary manipulation could help mitigate HS production. The objective of this study was to assess the effect of dietary roughage and sulfur concentrations on HS production and rumen fermentation. In Exp. 1, 7 dual-flow continuous culture fermenters were used in 4 consecutive 9-d periods consisting of 6 d of adaptation followed by 3 d of sampling. At the conclusion of each 9-d continuous culture period, adapted rumen fluid was used for inoculation of 24-h batch culture incubations for Exp. 2. For both experiments, 6 dietary treatments were formulated to consist of 0.3%, 0.4%, or 0.5% dietary sulfur (LS, MS, and HS, respectively) and 3% or 9% dietary roughage (LR and MR, respectively), using grass hay as the roughage source. A corn-based diet without DDGS was used as a control diet. Headspace gas was sampled to determine HS production and concentration. In Exp. 1, greater dietary roughage had no effect ( = 0.14) on HS production but did create a less acidic environment because of an increase ( < 0.01) in the in vitro pH. In Exp. 2, an increase in dietary sulfur caused an increase ( = 0.04) in ruminal HS production, but there was no direct effect ( = 0.25) of dietary roughage on HS production. Greater dietary roughage resulted in a less ( = 0.01) acidic final batch culture pH but a lower ( < 0.01) total VFA concentration. Further investigation is needed to determine a more effective way to mitigate ruminal HS production using dietary manipulation, which could include greater inclusion of dietary roughage or the use of different roughage sources.

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“…In some of the earlier research, Hatch et al (1972) demonstrated that including 2.5% distillers solubles as a replacement for urea in liquid protein supplements improved weight gain and feed conversion for finishing beef steers. Subsequent finishing cattle studies with CCDS also noted improved feed conversion (Rust et al, 1990;Ham et al, 1994), whereas others observed improved weight gains in finishing cattle receiving up to 20% CCDS (Sharp and Berkelo, 1996).…”

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Effect of condensed corn distillers solubles concentration on lactation performance of Holstein cows

McCormick

Forbes

Moreira

et al. 2015

Journal of Dairy Science

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Forty-eight Holstein cows (32 multiparous and 16 primiparous) in mid to late lactation averaging 219±71 days in milk and 30.5±6.6 kg/d of 3.5% fat-corrected milk were used in a 56-d completely randomized design experiment to evaluate condensed corn distillers solubles (CCDS) inclusion in high-fiber total mixed rations (TMR). Inclusion rates evaluated were 0, 6.6, 13.2, and 19.8% CCDS as a percentage of dry matter (DM). Distiller solubles substituted for soybean meal, corn grain, and whole cottonseed such that diets were similar in protein (16.6%) and fat (4.50%). Water was added to 0, 6.6, and 13.2% CCDS treatments so that final TMR DM concentrations (47.8%) were similar across diets. The forage portion of the diet was kept constant at 19.6% annual ryegrass hay and 26.0% sorghum baleage. Diet in vitro true digestibility tended to increase as CCDS addition increased, but neutral detergent fiber digestibility trended lower in CCDS diets. Percent P (0.39, 0.55, 0.69, and 0.73%) and S (0.32, 0.35, 0.39, and 0.42%) in TMR increased as CCDS concentration increased. Milk yield (23.5, 24.7, 25.5, and 24.8 kg/d of 3.5% fat-corrected milk) was similar for control and CCDS diets. Milk fat (3.88, 3.73, 3.78, and 3.68%), protein (3.28, 3.27, 3.31, and 3.31%), and lactose (4.61, 4.66, 4.69, and 4.77) percentages were similar across diets. Milk urea nitrogen (16.60, 15.58, 15.43, and 14.75 mg/dL) declined with increasing CCDS addition. Animal activity, body weight, body condition scores, and locomotion scores were not influenced by CCDS. Day 28 poststudy locomotion scores were similar across diets. Ruminal acetate concentrations did not differ among diets, but propionate and butyrate concentrations were elevated in rumen fluid of cows receiving 19.6% CCDS. Although rumen fluid pH values were similar (6.5, 6.4, 6.3, and 6.2), the two highest CCDS diets exhibited depressed acetate:propionate ratios relative to controls. The results from this study indicate that CCDS may be included in high-fiber TMR for lactating dairy cows at up to nearly 20% of diet DM; however, caution is recommended because high CCDS P concentrations may create Ca:P imbalances and excess P may be introduced into the environment.

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Effect of Corn Distillers Solubles and Brewers Dried Grains with Yeast in Urea-Containing Rations on Steer Performance

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Effect of Feeding Wet Brewers Grains to Beef Heifers on Wintering Performance, Serum Selenium and Reproductive Performance

Effect of Feeding Wet Brewers Grains to Beef Heifers on Wintering Performance, Serum Selenium and Reproductive Performance

Effects of dietary roughage and sulfur in diets containing corn dried distillers grains with solubles on hydrogen sulfide production and fermentation by rumen microbes in vitro

Effect of condensed corn distillers solubles concentration on lactation performance of Holstein cows

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