Table 7.

Effects of AFE on blood cells count of dairy cows

Item	AFE				SEM	p-values
	Con	20 mg/kg BW	60 mg/kg BW	100 mg/kg BW		Linear	Quadratic
White blood cells (109/L)	13.52	13.54	13.70	13.41	0.23	0.83	0.57
Neutrophil granulocyte (109/L)	4.17	4.42	4.90	4.87	0.90	0.09	0.64
Lymphocyte (109/L)	8.78a	8.56ab	8.29ab	8.09b	0.14	0.03	0.20
Monocyte (109/L)	0.23	0.27	0.25	0.24	0.05	0.80	0.80
Eosinophilic granulocyte (109/L)	0.30	0.23	0.21	0.16	0.07	0.36	0.43
Basophilic granulocyte (109/L)	0.058	0.055	0.048	0.050	0.008	0.40	0.75
Neutrophil granulocyte (%)	33.05c	34.37b	37.42ab	38.50a	0.91	0.01	0.23
Lymphocyte (%)	62.05a	60.95ab	58.25ab	57.82b	1.08	0.03	0.51
Monocyte (%)	2.02	2.40	2.32	1.75	0.29	0.25	0.74
Eosinophilic granulocyte (%)	2.37	1.80	1.62	1.52	0.30	0.28	0.30
Basophilic granulocyte (%)	0.50	0.48	0.38	0.40	0.09	0.35	0.79

AFE, alfalfa flavonoids extract; BW, body weight; SEM, standard error of the mean.

^abMeans with the same letter in the row differ at p<0.05.