Table 2.
Composition and nutritional profile of treatments
| Item | CONC | LMB |
|---|---|---|
| Ingredients, % dry matter basis | ||
| Cottonseed meal | 8.50 | 8.37 |
| Molasses | 60.3 | 60.4 |
| Essentiom | 24.7 | 24.7 |
| Ca phosphate | 3.35 | 3.36 |
| Mg oxide | 3.15 | 3.17 |
| Nutrient profile, dry matter basis | ||
| Dry matter, % | 92.7 | 89.9 |
| Total digestible nutrients,2 % | 99 | 87 |
| Net energy for maintenance,3 Mcal/kg | 2.46 | 2.20 |
| Crude protein, % | 9.75 | 9.30 |
| Neutral detergent fiber, % | 3.14 | 3.40 |
| Fatty acids, % | 21.0 | 21.9 |
| Palmitic (16:0), % | 6.53 | 6.57 |
| Stearic (18:0), % | 0.80 | 0.91 |
| Oleic (18:1, ω-9), % | 5.81 | 5.59 |
| Linoleic (18:2, ω-6), % | 7.02 | 7.17 |
| α-Linolenic (18:3, ω-3), % | 0.67 | 0.80 |
1CONC = hand-fed granular supplement enriched with Ca salts of soybean oil (Essentiom, Church and Dwight Co., Inc., Princeton, NJ); LMB = low-moisture molasses-based block enriched with Ca salts of soybean oil (Essentiom, Church and Dwight Co., Inc.). Results are based on individual ingredients of the CONC, and LMB sample collected prior to the beginning of the experiment.
2Calculated according to the equations described by Weiss et al. (1992).
3Calculated with equations described by the NRC (2000).