Skip to main content
. 2023 Dec 17;41:e00824. doi: 10.1016/j.btre.2023.e00824

Table 2.

Mean and standard error (SEM) of blood count of steers supplemented with amylase and blend enzymes.

Items Treatments1 SEM P – values
T1 (n = 6) Control T2 (n = 6) Blend T3 (n = 6) Amylase T4 (n = 6) Blend+Amylase Treat Treat × Day
Erythrocytes (x106 µL) 0.31 0.08
 d 1 7.92 7.03 6.73 7.69 0.44
 d 15 8.21a 7.58a 6.47b 8.03a 0.42
 d 60 6.82 6.69 6.64 7.17 0.44
 d 120 7.09ab 6.52b 7.29ab 7.89a 0.42
 Average2 7.40 6.93 6.80 7.70 0.34
Hematocrit (%) 0.10 0.05
 d 1 32.3 30.1 30.1 31.9 1.44
 d 15 32.9a 32.0ab 29.3b 32.6a 1.41
 d 60 29.9 29.8 31.5 30.6 1.62
 d 120 32.0bc 28.8c 34.1ab 36.2a 1.41
 Average2 31.6ab 30.2b 31.7ab 33.1a 0.66
Hemoglobin (g/dL) 0.26 0.08
 d 1 11.0 10.4 10.2 11.0 0.55
 d 15 11.3a 10.9ab 9.75b 11.7a 0.55
 d 60 10.7 10.8 11.0 11.3 0.63
 d 120 11.5ab 10.4b 12.3a 12.9a 0.55
 Average2 11.2 10.6 11.0 12.0 0.47
Leukocytes (x103 µL) 0.93 0.88
 d 1 3.84 3.79 3.32 2.87 0.71
 d 15 4.79 4.57 4.71 4.39 0.71
 d 60 5.51 6.30 6.50 6.22 0.81
 d 120 4.56 5.41 5.74 6.21 0.71
 Average2 5.09 5.55 5.61 5.39 0.58
Lymphocytes (x103 µL) 0.49 0.88
 d 1 2.63 2.69 2.43 2.39 0.49
 d 15 3.50 3.14 3.53 2.61 0.49
 d 60 3.65 3.55 4.38 3.98 0.56
 d 120 3.25 3.25 4.11 3.74 0.49
 Average2 3.50 3.36 3.98 3.39 0.30
Monocytes (x103 µL)
 d 1 0.28 0.27 0.28 0.24 0.09 0.19 0.29
 d 15 0.31 0.27 0.32 0.28 0.10
 d 60 0.85 1.21 0.95 0.81 0.12
 d 120 0.63 0.88 0.74 0.77 0.10
 Average2 0.60 0.79 0.67 0.62 0.07
Granulocytes (x103 µL) 0.12 0.59
 d 1 1.15 0.95 0.69 0.89 0.20
 d 15 1.30 1.30 0.87 1.09 0.21
 d 60 1.33 1.69 1.16 0.99 0.24
 d 120 0.99 1.42 0.87 1.29 0.21
 Average2 1.20 1.47 0.97 1.13 0.18
RDW-CV 0.88 0.50
 d 1 21.2 22.3 21.8 21.3 1.30
 d 15 21.2 23.6 22.4 21.6 1.39
 d 60 26.2 24.7 25.9 25.3 1.67
 d 120 22.9 21.0 23.2 22.2 1.39
 Average2 23.4 23.1 23.8 23.0 1.00
Platelets (x103 µL) 0.89 0.16
 d 1 395 345 329 372 55.7
 d 15 380 289 305 423 62.0
 d 60 235 119 145 161 70.7
 d 120 130 283 223 229 62.0
 Average2 248 230 224 271 45.9
1

Treatments were: T1 Control- Control treatment, T2 blend– Treatment with 0.5 g of blend per kg of DM in the diet, T3 Amylase- Treatment with 0.5 g of amylase per kg of DM in the diet, T4 blend + Amylase- Treatment with 0.5 g enzyme blend+ 0 0.5 g amylase per kg of DM in the diet.

2

The d 1 results were removed from the data set to generate the average per treatment in the statistical analysis.

a,b,c Note: P ≤ 0.05 (different) and P ≥ 0.05 to ≤ 0.1 (trend) were illustrated by different letters (a,b,c) on the same line.