Table 2.
Least squares means and standard errors of means for health cost, whole milk or replacer cost, and economic analysis of milk and milk replacer for during the first 8 wk of life1
| Measurement | Whole milk |
Milk replacer |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LSM | SE | LSM | SE | |
| Health cost ($) | 4.65 | 1.03 | 5.88 | 1.01 |
| Milk feed cost ($) | 245.57a | 11.50 | 333.55b | 11.43 |
| Average cost/day ($) | 4.47a | 0.19 | 6.06b | 0.19 |
| Average cost/gain ($/kg) | 6.39a | 0.28 | 8.83b | 0.28 |
a,b
Means within a row without common superscripts are different at P < 0.05.
1
Reported means and SE are based on feeding group averages during the preweaning period.