Table 2.

Pre-trial (d 0) milk yield, dry matter intake and fecal and plasma LPS

	Control	SC1	SEM	p-value
Farm 1
Milk yield (kg/d)	19.6	19.8	0.329	0.730
Dry matter intake (kg/d)	19.2	18.9	0.197	0.352
Fecal LPS (EU/ml)2	7,326	7,290	709	0.976
Plasma LPS (EU/ml) 2	0.46	0.46	0.152	0.990
Farm 2
Milk yield (kg/d)	21.5	21.7	0.542	0.835
Dry matter intake (kg/d)	18.9	18.9	0.175	0.874
Fecal LPS (EU/ml) 2	6,668	7,984	665	0.283
Plasma LPS (EU/ml) 2	0.24	0.15	0.031	0.157

¹SC = 56 g/cow/d, Diamond V Original XP, Diamond V, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA.

²LPS = Lipopolysaccharide. EU = Endotoxin unit.