Table 3.

Crude protein intake, on a dry matter basis, of Nellore bulls finished on tropical pasture and fed a Bacillus-based probiotic

Days	Treatments*		SEM1	P – value2
	Control	Probiotic		Treatment
Crude protein intake from pasture, kg
0–28	0.64	0.55	0.08	0.39
29–56	0.99	0.86	0.11	0.27
57–84	0.56	0.46	0.05	0.05
85–112	0.44	0.42	0.09	0.72
Overall mean	0.66	0.57	0.06	0.03
Crude protein intake from supplement, kg
0–28	0.24	0.24	0.01	0.27
29–56	0.27	0.27	0.01	0.14
57–84	0.27	0.26	0.01	0.03
85–112	0.27	0.26	0.01	0.20
Overall mean	0.26	0.26	0.01	0.09
Total crude protein intake, kg
0–28	0.88	0.79	0.08	0.37
29–56	1.26	1.13	0.12	0.25
57–84	0.83	0.72	0.06	0.03
85–112	0.70	0.68	0.09	0.65
Overall mean	0.92	0.83	0.07	0.02

*CON; energy-protein supplement without any feed additive (n = 14) - Probiotic; energy-protein supplement containing 2 g of probiotic/animal per day (n = 14). The probiotic was composed of Bacillus licheniformis and Bacillus subtilis (6.4 × 10⁹ CFU/g). ¹Standard error of mean;² P-value; The significance level was set at P ≤ 0.05, and 0.05 < P ≤ 0.10 was considered a tendency