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. 2024 Jun 25;19(6):e0305227. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0305227

Table 3. Nutrient intake and growth performance as influenced by feeding pasteurized waste milk (WM) and a blend of WM with milk replacer powder (WM+MR) or transition milk (WM+TM) as liquid feeds to cold-stressed newborn Holstein calves (n = 17 per treatment).

Item2 Treatments (T) SEM Contrasts1 Fixed effects
WM WM+MR WM+TM C1 C2 Period (P) T × P
SI, g/d 1640.4 1668.0 1558.1 28.359 0.430 0.006 0.001 0.937
SI_BW, % 1.68 1.67 1.51 0.032 0.018 0.001 0.001 0.842
DMI, g/d 1984.8 2139.0 2028.6 28.411 0.004 0.006 0.001 0.962
DMI_BW, % 2.31 2.51 2.34 0.033 0.003 0.001 0.001 0.060
CPI, g/d 393.8 424.2 445.6 5.430 0.001 0.005 0.001 0.001
CFI, g/d 137.8 162.6 169.7 0.974 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001
MEI, Mcal/d 6.67 7.35 7.14 0.086 0.001 0.075 0.001 0.345
Average BW, kg 79.19 80.29 80.79 0.530 0.037 0.502 0.001 0.999
ADG, kg/d 0.93 1.01 0.99 0.016 0.001 0.344 0.001 0.026
FE, kg/kg 0.62 0.51 0.57 0.013 0.001 0.003 0.001 0.001
ADG_ME, kg/Mcal 0.16 0.13 0.14 0.003 0.001 0.064 0.001 0.001

1Contrasts: C1 = WM vs. the average of WM+TM and WM+MR; C2 = WM+TM vs. WM+MR.

2Starter intake (SI); Starter intake % of initial body weight (SI_BW); Dry matter intake (DMI); Dry matter intake % of initial body weight (DMI_BW); Crude protein intake (CPI); Crude fat intake (CFI); Metabolizable energy intake (MEI); Average body weight (Average BW); Average daily gain (ADG); Feed efficiency (FE; kg of ADG/kg of DMI); and Average daily gain in the function of metabolizable energy intake (ADG_ME).