Table 4.

Effects of cattle breed, Holstein or Angus, and basal diet, grain or forage, on reticulorumen content pre- and post-feeding¹

	Grain2		Forage2			P-value
Item	Angus	Holstein	Angus	Holstein	SEM	Diet	Breed	Diet × Breed
Animals, n	5	6	6	6	—	—	—	—
Reticulorumen contents, 0 h
Wet, kg	88.1	85.1	102.4	108.3	6.26	<0.01	0.80	0.45
Dry, kg3	12.6	11.6	13.4	14.4	1.48	0.08	0.99	0.35
Reticulorumen contents, 3 h
Wet, kg	105.8	109.6	114.1	139.4	7.11	0.01	0.04	0.12
Dry, kg3	19.3	19.0	17.0	20.3	1.54	0.70	0.31	0.22

¹Total rumen evacuation was conducted prior to animal feeding (0 h) and 3 h post-feeding on two consecutive days.

²Grain = diet contained 71% cracked corn, 20% grass hay, 7% soybean meal, and 2% mineral and vitamin supplement; Forage = diet contained 9.25% cracked corn, 80% grass hay, 8.75% soybean meal, and 2% mineral and vitamin supplement.

³Calculated on DM basis.