Table 5.
Nutrient intake (Mean ± SD) of calves, steers and lambs fed hempseed cake, soybean, or canola meal diets.
| Calves | Steers | Lambs | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nutrient intake (kg DM) | HSC | SBM | SEM | HSC | SBM | SEM | HSC | CM | SEM |
| DM | 5.00 | 4.55 | 0.11 | 11.2 | 10.6 | 0.25 | 1.46 | 1.34 | 0.7 |
| NDF | 1.68 | 1.28 | 0.02 | 4.17 | 3.7 | 0.09 | – | – | – |
| Starch | 1.43 | 1.55 | 0.02 | 3.36 | 3.47 | 0.09 | 0.38 | 0.39 | 0.02 |
| CP | 0.83 | 0.64 | 0.01 | 1.43 | 1.24 | 0.02 | 0.14 | 0.12 | 0.007 |
| Fat | 0.16 | 0.09 | 0 | 0.26 | 0.18 | 0.4 | – | – | – |
| ME* | 58.6 | 53.7 | 1.25 | 134 | 127 | 3.1 | 11.3 | 11.6 | 0.45 |
*
MJ/kg DM; Calves, 6–8 weeks of age weighing 96 ± 21 kg; Steers, 13–15 months of age weighing 365 ± 28 kg; HSC, hempseed cake; SBM, soybean meal; CM, canola meal; DM, dry matter; NDF, neutral detergent fiber; CP, crude protein; ME, metabolisable energy; SEM, Standard error of mean.