Table 3 Diet composition (kg/d) in the selected commercial farms, chemical properties and nutritional values of the rations
From: Breed and adaptive response modulate bovine peripheral blood cells’ transcriptome
Item | Farms | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
F1 | F2 | F3 | F4 | F5 | F6 | |
Lucerne | 8.0 | 4.4 | 5.0 | 4.5 | 3.5 | 4.5 |
Pasture hay | 1.5 | 1.5 | 3.3 | |||
Wheat silage | 2.2 | |||||
Corn silage | 22.5 | 20.0 | 15.0 | 20.0 | 32.0 | 20.0 |
Ryegrass silage | 8.0 | 5.0 | ||||
Cotton seeds | 1.2 | 1.0 | 1.0 | |||
Corn meal | 5.2 | 6.0 | 6.0 | 4.5 | 6.0 | |
Soybean meal | 2.0 | 2.1 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | |
Rapeseed meal | 1.5 | 1.4 | ||||
Linseed | 0.3 | |||||
Straw | 0.5 | |||||
Wheat bran | 1.5 | |||||
Supplements | 3.4 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 9.5 | 2.5 |
Total | 41.6 | 45.6 | 31.4 | 35.9 | 48.3 | 39.0 |
DMI | 23.3 | 22.6 | 19.5 | 20.7 | 23.4 | 19.8 |
Starch, % DM | 25.2 | 27.8 | 28.6 | 26.8 | 25.5 | 30.1 |
CP, % DM | 14.7 | 14.0 | 14.8 | 13.2 | 13.1 | 13.2 |
EE, % DM | 2.9 | 3.9 | 4.1 | 4.1 | 2.8 | 3.0 |
Ashes, % DM | 6.6 | 6.7 | 7.5 | 7.4 | 7.8 | 6.4 |
NDF, % DM | 38.7 | 37.4 | 35.4 | 36.9 | 38.5 | 38.8 |
MFU | 20.0 | 20.7 | 17.9 | 17.9 | 21.3 | 17.5 |
PDIN, g/d | 2.222 | 2.058 | 1.972 | 1.776 | 1.996 | 1.726 |
PDIE, g/d | 2.154 | 2.043 | 1.940 | 1.784 | 1.960 | 1.785 |