Table 2.
Nutrient composition of feeds on a DM basis.
| Item | Colostrum1 | Colostrum replacement | Milk replacer |
Starter grain | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No plasma | Plasma | ||||
| DM (%) | 24.0 | 96.02 | 96.81 | 97.3 | 88.88 |
| CP (%) | 58.3 | 44.35 | 22.02 | 22.81 | 20.44 |
| Milk protein (% of CP) | … | … | 100 | 80 | … |
| Plasma protein (% of CP) | … | … | 0 | 20 | … |
| Fat (%) | 27.9 | 3.44 | 21.27 | 21.08 | 4.67 |
| Ash (%) | 4.63 | 4.69 | 7.46 | 8.59 | 6.09 |
| ADF (%) | … | … | … | … | 4.74 |
| Ca (mg/100 g) | 1083.3 | 373 | 1090 | 1510 | 1020 |
| P (mg/100 g) | … | 619 | 983 | 1240 | 709 |
| K (mg/100 g) | 583.3 | 142 | 1210 | 1170 | 999 |
| Mg (mg/100 g) | 166.7 | 80.6 | 130 | 178 | 213 |
1
Colostrum nutrient composition was not analyzed; average values (Foley and Otterby, 1978) are reported for comparison only.