TABLE 1.
Ingredients and nutrient composition of the basal diet.
| Ingredient | Content, % of DM |
| Alfalfa hay | 6.90 |
| Corn silage | 46.32 |
| Oat grass | 2.40 |
| Ground corn | 9.88 |
| Soybean meal | 5.10 |
| Steam-flaked corn | 4.40 |
| DDGS1 | 4.40 |
| Corn bran | 3.70 |
| Extruded soybean | 3.00 |
| Barley | 2.66 |
| Wheat bran | 2.66 |
| Sodium cyclamate | 2.40 |
| Oats | 1.50 |
| Canola meal | 1.07 |
| Cottonseed meal | 1.07 |
| MAGALAC2 | 0.90 |
| NaHCO3 | 0.59 |
| Limestone | 0.48 |
| NaCl | 0.27 |
| Premix3 | 0.30 |
| Chemical composition,% of DM4 | |
| CP | 17.4 |
| NDF | 31.1 |
| ADF | 16.6 |
| Ether extract | 5.00 |
| Ca | 0.78 |
| P | 0.44 |
| NEL, Mcal/kg | 1.76 |
1DDGS = dried distillers grain with solubles. 2Church and Dwight, Co., Inc., Princeton, NJ, United States. 3Formulated to provide (per kg of DM) 4,560 mg of Cu, 3,000 mg of Fe, 12,100 mg of Zn, 4,590 mg of Mn, 60 mg of Co, 200 mg of Se, 270 mg of I, 10,000 IU of vitamin E, 450,000 IU of vitamin D, 2,000,000 IU of vitamin A, and 3,000 mg of nicotinic acid. 4Chemical composition based on chemical analysis of the total mixed ration (TMR), as described.