Table 2.

Targeted intake of treatment diets and estimates of requirements as per NASEM (2016)

	High-energy diet		Low-energy diet
Daily intake	80	120	80	120
As fed, kg	4.40	6.39	6.49	9.52
Dry matter, kg	3.91	5.68	5.79	8.49
DE,1 Mcal	11.68	16.97	13.70	20.09
ME, Mcal	9.58	13.92	11.23	16.47
NEm, Mcal	6.02	8.74	6.25	9.17
Requirements, Mcal NEm/d	7.53	7.28	7.81	7.64

¹DE = digestible energy; ME = metabolizable energy; NE_m = net energy for maintenance.