Table 3.

Liver mineral concentrations from heifers receiving vitamin and mineral bolus

	Treatmenta
	Day 0		Day 69		Day 134			P-value
Item, µg/g	CON	MIN	CON	MIN	CON	MIN	SEM	TRT	Timeb	TRT × Time
Se	1.89	1.87	1.64	1.71	1.53	1.55	0.08	0.75	0.0007	0.86
Fe	125	122	137	146	163	174	9	0.43	<0.0001	0.68
Cu	131	136	93	107	77	81	13	0.46	0.0002	0.91
Zn	104	107	102	111	101	104	6	0.27	0.73	0.86
Mo	3.95	3.86	3.40	3.53	3.54	3.47	0.14	0.93	0.005	0.70
Mn	8.92	9.26	7.95	8.43	8.18	8.54	0.37	0.21	0.05	0.98
Co	0.13	0.13	0.10	0.12	0.12	0.13	0.01	0.06	0.02	0.06

^aTreatment: CON = heifers did not receive vitamin and mineral bolus; MIN = heifers received vitamin and mineral bolus containing a minimum of 3,740 mg Ca, 16,456 mg Mg, 112 mg Na, 11,220 mg Cu, 2,995 mg I, 2,805 mg Mn, 505 mg Se, 48,620 mg Zn, 468 mg Co, 824,296 IU vitamin A, 173,102 IU vitamin D3, and 4,121 IU vitamin E based on company analysis; Reloader 250 Mineral Bolus, Cargill Inc., Minneapolis, MN.

^bTime: days 0, 69, and 134 were analyzed as repeated measures.