Table 3 Diarrhea and health of preweaning dairy calves fed different liquid diets.

Indices	Treatment			SEM	P-value
Indices	WM	AWM	MR	SEM	T	A	T × A
Faecal score	0.68^b	0.77^ab	0.98^a	0.08	0.01	< 0.01	0.43
Days with diarrhea	6.92^b	9.40^ab	12.69^a	1.55	0.04	–	–
Diarrhea rate, %
0–56 days	12.20^a	16.80^ab	22.80^b	2.16	0.03	–	–
0–10 days	3.30^a	5.00^ab	16.90^b	4.15	0.04	–	–
11–30 days	20.80	25.50	37.30	5.63	0.10	–	–
31–56 d	9.00	14.60	13.90	3.81	0.53
Fecal pH	6.61	6.61	6.71	0.08	0.61	< 0.01	0.12
Haematocrit, %	27.91	28.09	25.99	0.83	0.14	0.96	0.21
Rectal temperature, °C	38.51^a	38.35^b	38.41^ab	0.04	0.01	< 0.01	0.99
Days with fever	2.83^b	1.04^a	2.54^b	0.55	0.06	–	–

WM whole milk, AWM acidified whole milk, MR milk replacer, SEM standard error of the mean, T treatment effect, A age effect, T×A treatment × age interaction effect (P < 0.05). ^a, ^b Means within a row with different superscripts are significantly different (P ≤ 0.05).

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