De Souza et al. (2018) recently found that the calcium salts of pàlm fatty acids treatment increased digestibility, energy allocated to body reserves (0.60 Mcal/d), energy partitioning toward body reserves (1.20 percentage units), and body condition score change (0.06 units), and tended to increase body weight change (0.16 kg/d) and body condition score (0.08 units) compared with Triglycierdes high in palmitic acid.
Remind that BODY CONDITION is “Precursor” of Metabolic Health and Reproductive performance.
Reference: J Dairy Sci. 2018 Apr;101(4):3110-3117. doi: 10.3168/jds.2017-13560.