Table 2.

Dry matter intake of cattle fed a receiving or finishing diet upon arrival to the feedlot

Item	Treatments		SEM3	P-value
	REC1	FIN2
Dry matter intake, kg/d
Days 0 to 14	3.90	2.78	0.13	<0.01
Days 14 to 28	6.43	5.19	0.16	<0.01
Days 28 to 56	8.18	7.14	0.14	<0.01
Days 56 to 74	8.68	8.07	0.17	<0.01
Days 0 to 74	7.16	6.17	0.11	<0.01
Days 74 to final	8.99	9.02	0.11	0.80
Days 0 to final	8.48	8.22	0.10	0.01
Calculated ME intake4, Mcal/d
Days 0 to 14	10.79	8.92	0.36	<0.01
Days 14 to 28	17.77	16.62	0.48	0.02
Days 28 to 56	22.60	22.86	0.40	0.51
Days 56 to 74	25.96	25.85	0.52	0.84
Days 0 to 74	20.19	19.77	0.31	0.19
Days 74 to final	28.79	28.88	0.36	0.80
Days 0 to final	26.41	26.32	0.30	0.78

REC, cattle fed a receiving diet for the first 56 d then transitioned to a finishing diet over 18 d.

FIN, cattle fed a finishing diet for the entire feeding period.

SEM, standard error of the mean.

Calcualated ME intake = metabolizable energy (ME) intake calculated by multiplying daily dry matter intake (DMI) by dietary ME.