Table 3.

Average weight of various internal organs in six-month-old calves from the control and metabolic imprinted dietary groups

Organ name1)	Dietary treatments2)
	Control	T1	T2	T3
Rumen and reticulum (kg)	1.22±0.10c	2.76±0.26a	2.08±0.06b	2.92±0.09a
Omasum (kg)	0.17±0.02c	0.53±0.06a	0.45±0.04b	0.50±0.07a
Abomasum (kg)	0.45±0.01	0.45±0.01	0.45±0.04	0.50±0.04
Duodenum (kg)	0.10±0.00	0.10±0.01	0.12±0.01	0.14±0.04
Small and large intestine (kg)	2.77±0.24c	2.66±0.14c	2.93±0.12b	3.26±0.22a
Liver (kg)	1.32±0.04c	1.52±0.10b	1.56±0.12b	1.62±0.09a
Spleen (kg)	0.30±0.02	0.24±0.01	0.26±0.04	0.27±0.03
Kidney (kg)	0.37±0.03b	0.38±0.02b	0.33±0.06c	0.43±0.02a
Heart (kg)	0.53±0.03	0.49±0.05	0.56±0.04	0.57±0.03

¹⁾Various internal organs of control and early weaned dietary treatment calves.

²⁾Different dietary treatments.

Values are mean with standard errors.

^a–cWithin horizontal rows, means with different superscript letters are significantly different (p<0.05).