BY JACK HUBLEY
UNIVERSITY PARK - Every
dairyman knows that today’s high form of quality feed and clean A lesser known, but no less
producing dairy cow is one of the water, and she’ll work three shifts important, by-product of all this
a day to turn out milk, manure, -e chemisti is saliva.
_resean may reve. jringagei. .aper y< jl .as effective
as bicarb, says Dr. Larry Muller of the University’s Department of Dairy and Animal
Science.
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 15,1985-A29
Holstein cow could fill a 50-gallon
spittoon daily if she chose to, but
she knows it’s vitally needed
elsewhere.
In addition to lubricating food for
easy passage, saliva provides
about three-fourths of the water
required by the rumen, and also
keeps the pH of the rumen within
acceptable bounds by producing
sodium bicarbonate, an important
buffering agent.
The type of food being consumed
can have an effect on saliva
production, which in turn affects
rumen pH. High fiber diets in
crease salivation, while gram or
silage diets that require less
chewing may result in lower saliva
production, and an acid condition
in the rumen.
Being aware of the important
buffering role played by sodium
bicarbonate, many dairymen add
the compound alone, or in com
bination with magnesium oxide, to
their rations.
“Probably over 50 percent of the
dairymen are feeding buffers,”
says Penn State professor Dr
I-arry Muller, adding that too
much acid in the rumen can result
in lower milk production and a
lower fat test.
Although sodium bicarb and
magnesium oxide have been the
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policy, preliminary research
conducted by Muller and Dr. Tom
Sweeney, also of Penn State’s
Dairy and Animal Science
Department, indicates that there
might be a way to get the same job
done cheaper.
The study began last summer
when the researchers set up a
small-scale trial testing the effects
sodium bicarbonate (SB) and
sodium sesquicarbonate (SSC)
during the last half of lactation.
They found no significant dif
ferences in milk yield or com
position, between the two com
pounds And the cows accepted
SSC as readily as SB, leading the
researchers to suspect that the
former was just as palatable.
Last tall another trial was
initiated testing the effects of SSC
on 30 high producing cows during
the first third of their lactation
The numbers from this trial
aren’t in yet, but Muller suspects
that SSC may prove to be an at
tractive alternative to BC for two
reasons
First, with a pH of 9.9, SSC is a
more powerful buffering agent
than BC with its pH of 8.6. (A
measure of acidity and alkalinity,
the pH scale establishes 7 as
neutral, with acidity increasing on
the descending scale and
decreasing on the ascending
scale ) Theoretically, this means
that less SSC will be needed to keep
rumen pH within its optimum
range of 6.2 to 6.8.
And second, Dr. Muller reports
that sodium sesquicarbonate is
projected to cost less than sodium
bicarbonate. “The bottom line is it
offers another buffering material
that may be just as effective as
bicarbonate yet less expensive,”
concludes Muller.
And more for less is, after all,
the bottom line in today’s farm
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