Table 3.
Blood metabolites influenced by partial substitution of beet pulp (BP) for steam-flaked corn (SFC; SBP vs. SFC) in Holstein dairy calves (d 1 to 81, n = 24).
| Item | Treatment (Treat)1 |
SEM |
P-value |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SFC | SBP | Treat | Period | Treat × Period | ||
| Glucose, mg/dL | 90.2 | 89.1 | 2.22 | 0.24 | 0.01 | 0.62 |
| BUN, mg/dL | 22.4 | 23.8 | 0.39 | 0.01 | 0.08 | 0.37 |
| Total protein, g/dL | 5.60 | 5.68 | 0.06 | 0.39 | 0.11 | 0.39 |
| Albumin, g/dL | 3.80 | 3.76 | 0.02 | 0.17 | 0.04 | 0.65 |
| Globulin, g/dL | 1.77 | 1.94 | 0.07 | 0.06 | 0.04 | 0.35 |
| Albumin:globulin | 2.48 | 2.09 | 0.13 | 0.03 | 0.38 | 0.83 |
SEM = standard error of the mean; BUN = blood urea nitrogen.
1
SFC: starter diet containing SFC (65.7% of DM) without SBP; SBP: starter diet containing SBP (25% of DM) as replacement for SFC (43.5% of DM).