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

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
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.