Table 5.
Individual milk yield (kg/d) of the dairy cows during the experiment. Day −6 is relative to the first day of offering the seaweed mix containing A. taxiformis.
| Treatments | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Low | Medium | High | ||||||||||
| Cow | L1 | L2 | L3 | L4 | L5 | L6 | L7 | L8 | M1 | M2 | H1 | H2 |
| Day | ||||||||||||
| −6 | 1 | 11.7 | 10.4 | 18.3 | 10.0 | 11.8 | 7.8 | 7.6 | 22.9 | 12.7 | 15.3 | 19.9 |
| −5 | 1 | 12.1 | 10.7 | 16.7 | 16.4 | 16.6 | 19.9 | 13.2 | 22.5 | 13.1 | 14.7 | 18.3 |
| −4 | 1 | 11.6 | 9.9 | 15.9 | 15.1 | 13.0 | 21.1 | 13.4 | 23.8 | 11.7 | 16.8 | 17.4 |
| −3 | 1 | 14.0 | 9.6 | 14.8 | 19.3 | 14.7 | 21.0 | 13.5 | 23.6 | 11.7 | 18.8 | 19.7 |
| −2 | 7.05 | 13.7 | 10.5 | 14.6 | 17.1 | 14.9 | 21.3 | 8.9 5 | 23.4 | 11.7 | 19.5 | 20.2 |
| −1 | 22.6 | 14.5 | 8.5 | 16.6 | 17.0 | 16.0 | 22.2 | 16.3 | 20.4 | 11.8 | 18.4 | 19.5 |
| 1 | 22.9 | 13.3 | 8.6 | 17.5 | 16.4 | 15.2 | 21.4 | 16.0 | 22.0 | 11.6 | 17.1 | 18.9 |
| 2 | 23.6 | 13.2 | 9.2 | 15.7 | 16.6 | 15.0 | 21.8 | 15.6 | 21.8 | 11.5 | 13.1 | 13.6 |
| 3 | 23.1 | 12.9 | 13.9 | 18.9 | 18.7 | 15.3 | 21.4 | 15.8 | 20.9 | 13.6 | 17.8 | 13.1 |
| 4 | 22.4 | 16.3 | 14.9 | 20.8 | 20.6 | 13.5 | 20.3 | 16.2 | 19.6 | 14.5 | 21.8 | 16.4 |
| 5 | 22.8 | 14.6 | 14.8 | 21.5 | 19.5 | 15.0 | 19.6 | 16.4 | 18.5 | 12.8 | 22.5 | 17.8 |
| 6 | 22.2 | 15.6 | 15.0 | 20.4 | 20.1 | 14.4 | 19.3 | 13.2 | 15.8 | 15.5 | 19.8 | 18.0 |
| 7 2 | 23.1 | 16.4 | 14.2 | 23.8 | 20.9 | 14.4 | 16.4 | 15.5 | 17.3 | 14.5 | 18.3 | 19.1 |
| 8 2 | 21.6 | 13.4 | 12.4 | 14.3 | 19.0 | 12.0 | 14.8 | 13.3 | 15.2 | 9.4 | 10.5 | 15.4 |
| 9 2 | 21.2 | 13.7 | 10.1 | 13.0 | 17.1 | 13.1 | 13.9 | 15.6 | 11.3 | 7.7 | 9.7 | 10.4 |
| 10 2 | 19.6 | 8.5 | 7.7 | 15.3 | 17.6 | 12.4 | 15.5 | 15.5 | 9.6 | 5.6 | 7.3 | 12.0 |
| 11 | 18.3 | 10.1 | 13.4 | 6.4 | 15.9 | 15.0 | 15.9 | 15.1 | 11.5 | 6.8 | 10.1 | 13.8 |
| 12 | 18.6 | 11.7 | 12.4 | 9.4 | 16.2 | 11.4 | 16.3 | 14.8 | 9.5 | 9.0 | 4.3 5 | 14.3 |
| 13 | 18.4 | 12.1 | 12.7 | 19.7 | 16.6 | 13.1 | 17.5 | 15.7 | 4 | 6.8 | 10.6 | 14.3 |
| 14 | 22.2 | 13.6 | 14.6 | 16.4 | 20.7 | 9.1 | 18.4 | 17.0 | 4 | 9.0 | 14.0 | 13.6 |
| 15 | 21.2 | 14.0 | 14.6 | 18.4 | 18.4 | 3.4 5 | 14.8 | 16.4 | 4 | 9.9 | 7.1 5 | 14.1 |
| 16 | 3 | 3 | 14.6 | 20.0 | 20.7 | 3.9 5 | 18.4 | 16.7 | 4 | 10.3 | 3 | 14.8 |
| 17 | 9.4 5 | 8.9 5 | 15.8 | 21.5 | 20.3 | 7.1 | 19.7 | 15.9 | 4 | 10.5 | 8.4 5 | 16.0 |
| 18 | 22.3 | 14.2 | 14.9 | 21.0 | 20.4 | 14.2 | 20.6 | 16.1 | 4 | 12.0 | 17.2 | 16.6 |
| 19 | 21.6 | 16.5 | 13.6 | 22.8 | 21.3 | 8.1 | 20.6 | 16.3 | 4 | 13.1 | 18.8 | 16.3 |
1 No data available due to the entrance of the animal into the experiment on day −3. 2 Animals were fed restrictedly on these days. 3 No data available due to system error. 4 No data available due to euthanasia of the animal. 5 Data based on one milking event.