Table 8. Poisson regression for days with abnormal appearance (≥2)1, frequency and duration of diarrhea (≥3)2 and pneumonia, and days with medication before weaning (d 1 to 60) 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).
Item | Treatments | SEM | Contrasts3 | |||
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WM | WM+MR | WM+TM | C1 | C2 | ||
Abnormal appearance, d | 6.35 | 4.71 | 4.53 | 0.107 | 0.022 | 0.326 |
Diarrhea | ||||||
Frequency, no of times | 1.41 | 1.47 | 1.29 | 0.205 | 0.768 | 0.735 |
Duration, d | 7.76 | 7.18 | 7.18 | 0.089 | 0.530 | 0.720 |
Medication, d | 5.88 | 5.59 | 5.88 | 0.101 | 0.998 | 0.679 |
Pneumonia | ||||||
Frequency, no. of times | 0.29 | 0.24 | 0.24 | 0.482 | 0.738 | 0.852 |
Duration, d | 1.29 | 0.53 | 0.47 | 0.299 | 0.009 | 0.310 |
Medication, d | 1.47 | 1.18 | 1.18 | 0.215 | 0.455 | 0.676 |
11 = normal and alert; 2 = ears drooped; 3 = head and ears drooped, dull eyes, and slightly lethargic; 4 = head and ears drooped, dull eyes, and lethargic; and 5 = severely lethargic; based on the scoring system described by [56].
21 = normal; 2 = soft to loose; 3 = loose to watery; 4 = watery, mucous, and slightly bloody; and 5 = watery, mucous, and bloody; based on the scoring system described by [56].
3Contrasts: C1 = WM vs. the average of WM+TM and WM+MR; C2 = WM+TM vs. WM+MR.