Table 5.
Effect of direct-fed microbial on leucocytes
| Leucocytes | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Treatment | SP, month | NEUT, % | EOSIN, % | MONO, % | LYMPH, % | BASO, % |
| Reference range1 | 10–50 | 0–10 | 0–6 | 40–75 | 0–3 | |
| Control | 46.94a | 11.83 | 5.22b | 35.89 | 0.11 | |
| RE3 | 45.69ab | 12.24 | 6.90a | 34.46 | 0.25 | |
| RE3 Plus | 43.80b | 14.00 | 5.64b | 36.10 | 0.13 | |
| P3 | 47.07a | 11.94 | 5.37b | 35.24 | 0.07 | |
| SE | 1.46 | 1.74 | 0.65 | 1.63 | 0.14 | |
| 1 | 46.50 | 9.78b | 5.40b | 37.94a | 0.11 | |
| 2 | 44.74 | 17.35a | 6.83a | 30.65b | 0.15 | |
| 3 | 46.40 | 10.34b | 5.12b | 37.68a | 0.15 | |
| SE | 1.27 | 1.49 | 0.53 | 1.39 | 0.12 | |
| Statistical interaction | ||||||
| Control*sp | **** | **** | **** | **** | **** | |
| RE3*sp | **** | **** | **** | **** | **** | |
| RE3 Plus*sp | **** | **** | **** | **** | **** | |
| P3*sp | **** | **** | **** | **** | **** | |
Means with the common letter within treatment and sampling periods (SP) are not significantly different based on comparison of least squares means within PROC MIXED of SAS. ****P < 0.0001.
NEUT, neutrophils; EOSIN, eosinophils; MONO, monocytes; LYMPH, lymphocytes; BASO, basophils.
1Source: Aiello (2000).