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Table 3 Effects of milk plane and milk total solid content on overall skeletal growth parameters of dairy calves during the study

From: Effects of different planes of milk feeding and milk total solids concentration on growth, ruminal fermentation, health, and behavior of late weaned dairy calves during summer

Items

MPM2

HPM2

SEM1

P values

12

17

12

17

PM

TS

PM × TS

Age (A)

PM × A

TS × A

PM × TS × A

Body length, cm

59.9

62.3

60.7

64.9

0.79

0.04

 < 0.0001

0.25

 < 0.0001

0.91

0.97

0.89

Heart girth, cm

110.1

113.5

109.3

114.7

1.58

0.89

0.01

0.50

 < 0.0001

0.24

0.67

0.35

Body barrel, cm

127.2

129.7

128.9

133.7

1.64

0.07

0.03

0.49

 < 0.0001

0.44

0.48

0.28

Withers height, cm

98.0

99.7

98.8

101.1

0.64

0.09

0.003

0.65

 < 0.0001

0.74

0.74

0.68

Hip height, cm

101.1

102.9

101.9

104.6

0.62

0.04

0.0005

0.55

 < 0.0001

0.99

0.65

0.99

Hip width, cm

18.7

19.6

19.6

20.1

0.28

0.01

0.01

0.47

 < 0.0001

0.84

0.41

0.43

  1. 1Standard error of the means
  2. 2(1) calves fed low plane of milk (LPM) intake with 12% TS (LPM-12%TS; total milk intake = 383 L; TS intake = 45.9 kg), (2) calves fed LPM intake with 17% TS (LPM-17%TS; total milk intake = 383 L; TS intake = 65.1 kg), (3) calves fed high plane of milk (HPM) intake with 12% TS (HPM-12%TS; total milk intake = 531 L; TS intake = 63.7 kg); and (4) calves fed HPM intake with 17% TS (HPM-17%; total milk intake = 531 L; TS intake = 90.3 kg)