Table 5.
Effect of physical form of ration on blood metabolites in lambs.
| Item | Experimental diets (different physical forms) |
SEM | P-value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Complete feed mash | Complete feed pellet | Complete feed block | |||
| Glucose, mg/dL | 72.30 | 71.83 | 73.25 | 2.60 | 0.90 |
| Blood urea nitrogen, mg/dL | 7.58b | 8.12b | 11.29a | 0.86 | 0.01 |
SEM = standard error of means.
a,b Means with different superscripts in the same row differ significantly (P < 0.05).