Table 1.

Performance of female Gir × Holstein dairy calves receiving or not receiving (CON; n = 70) bovine appeasing substance (BAS; n = 70) during pre-weaning.

Item	Treatment		SEM	p-Value
	CON	BAS
Body Weight, kg
Initial 1	40.0	41.0	1.17	0.56
Weaning	90.8	94.6	1.16	0.02
Pre-weaning average daily gain, kg	0.728	0.777	0.206	0.09

¹ Initial body weight refers to the body weight of animals at first treatment administration and not the birth body weight used for randomization.