Table 1 Ingredients and chemical composition of diets (DM basis)
From: Effect of dietary phosphorus content on milk production and phosphorus excretion in dairy cows
Items | Dietary treatment1 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
LP | MP | HP | |
Ingredient,% | |||
Ground corn grain | 22.0 | 21.9 | 21.8 |
Wheat bran | 4.1 | 4.1 | 4.1 |
Soybean meal | 4.2 | 4.2 | 4.2 |
Sesame meal | 3.2 | 3.1 | 3.1 |
Cotton meal | 3.0 | 2.9 | 2.9 |
Cotton seed | 2.1 | 2.1 | 2.1 |
Calcium carbonate | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.2 |
Salt | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 |
Dicalcium phosphate | 0.0 | 0.5 | 1.1 |
Corn silage | 20.1 | 20.7 | 20.7 |
Grass hay | 16.9 | 16.9 | 16.9 |
Alfalfa hay | 7.6 | 7.6 | 7.7 |
DDGS | 8.3 | 8.3 | 8.3 |
Apple pulp | 6.0 | 6.0 | 6.0 |
Premix2 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 |
Chemical composition3 | |||
Dry matter,% | 57.9 | 57.9 | 57.9 |
P,% | 0.37 | 0.47 | 0.57 |
Ca,% | 0.74 | 0.74 | 0.74 |
CP,% | 15.2 | 15.2 | 15.2 |
NDF,% | 32.6 | 32.8 | 32.9 |
NEL, Mcal/kg | 1.51 | 1.51 | 1.51 |