Table 4.
Effect of fish oil and β-glucans supplementation in calf milk replacer on feeding behaviour
| No. of visits per day where: | Fish Oil (FO) | β-Glucans (GL) | Period (P) relative to weaning | P-valuea | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| – | + | SED | – | + | SED | Pre | Post | SED | FO | GL | P | FO×GL | FO×P | GL×P | FO×GL×P | |
| Milk consumed | 3.45 | 3.62 | 0.164 | 3.50 | 3.57 | 0.164 | – | – | – | 0.29 | 0.68 | – | ns | – | – | – |
| Milk not consumed | 11.85 | 11.66 | 1.102 | 13.08 | 10.44 | 1.103 | – | – | – | 0.87 | 0.02 | – | ns | – | – | – |
| Drinking rate, L/min | 1.09 | 1.21 | 0.053 | 1.15 | 1.15 | 0.053 | – | – | – | 0.02 | 0.85 | – | ns | – | – | – |
| Visits where concentrate was consumed, visits/d | 19.38 | 20.42 | 1.798 | 21.61 | 18.20 | 1.798 | 20.84 | 18.97 | 0.638 | 0.29 | 0.056 | 0.003 | 0.071 | <.0001 | ns | <.0001 |
| Time in concentrate feeder, min/d | 55.40 | 51.45 | 2.894 | 56.99 | 49.86 | 2.893 | 39.56 | 67.29 | 1.091 | 0.17 | 0.014 | <.0001 | ns | <.0001 | ns | ns |
aInteractions are described in the text when significant
ns not significant