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Food and Nutrition Sciences, 2012, 3, 1084-1091 /10.4236/fns.2012.38144 Published Online August 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/fns) Effect of Feeding a Combination of Zinc, Manganese and Copper Methionine Chelates of Early Lactation High Producing Dairy Cow 1 2* 1 Ghada Mostafa El Ashry , Ayman Abdel Mohsen Hassan , Soliman Mohamed Soliman 1Regional Centre for Food Feed, Agriculture Research Centre, Ministry of Agriculture, Dokki, Egypt; 2Animal Production Research Institute, Ministry of Agriculture, Dokki, Egypt. * Email: ghadaashry@ th st th Received May 4 , 2012; revised June 1 , 2012; accepted June 8 , 2012 ABSTRACT The objective of the study was to compare the effect of feeding mixed chelated minerals (Mn, Cu and Zn) methionine on dairy cow productive performance and milk yield and its components. The trial was conducted with dairy cows across various stage of lactation. The experimental treatments include chelated minerals (15 mg Zn as Zn Met, 20 mg Mn as Mn Met, 10 mg Cu as Cu Met). Inorganic mixture contains (15 mg Zn as ZnSO , 20 mg Mn as MnSO , 10 mg 4 4 Cu as CuSO4) in sulphate forms. The experiment was commenced in the dry period of cows, 6 weeks before calving, and after calving the first three months of lactation was taken into consideration. Milk samples were collected from each cow evening and morning for estimation of milk yield production. The inorganic metals caused a significant decline (P 0.05) in digestibility coefficients, nutritive value, nitrogen utilization, cell wall constituents, total VFA’s, rumen vol- ume, microbi