Table 1 Transfer of passive immunity and total solids intake in the first 72 h of life of calves receiving different colostrum and transition milk feeding protocols.

From: Enrichment of medium-quality colostrum by adding colostrum replacer, combined or not with transition milk in the feeding of dairy calves

Item

Treatments

SEM2

P-value3

Bovine colostrum

Enriched colostrum

FTM1

WM

FTM

WM

C

T

C × T

Ig intake, g

518.87

537.45

506.49

507.53

11.477

0.1349

0.4913

0.5205

Serum Brix, % at 48h

10.07

10.49

9.75

10.42

0.299

0.5217

0.1886

0.6696

Serum IgG, g/L at 48h

50.99

51.14

49.60

51.49

3.425

0.8561

0.7289

0.7565

AEA4, %

30.45

29.80

30.20

31.30

1.982

0.7497

0.9088

0.6519

Transition diet intake

 Total volume, L

10.79

11.30

11.07

11.25

0.240

0.2973

0.0584

0.8826

 Total solids, Kg

2.12a

1.43b

2.18a

1.45b

0.037

0.2917

0.0001

0.6635

  1. 1Formulated transition milk, Whole milk; 2Standard error of the mean; 3C = effect of colostrum feeding protocol; T = effect of transition feeding protocol; C × T = effect of interaction between colostrum and transition feeding protocol; 4Apparent efficiency of absorption; a,bLower case letters denote effect of transition protocol;
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