Milk restriction or oligosaccharide supplementation in calves improves compensatory gain and digestive tract development without changing hormone levels.

Milk restriction or oligosaccharide supplementation in calves improves compensatory gain and digestive tract development without changing hormone levels.

We estimated the effect of oligosaccharide supplementation and feed restriction on calves. The study was divided into two experimental periods of 28 days each with 20 crossbred calves that had initial body weight of 37 Kg and housed in individual pens. The animals were split in four experimental gro...

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Main Authors: Natália Alves Costa, Aline Priscila Pansani, Carlos Henrique de Castro, Diego Basile Colugnati, Carlos Henrique Xaxier, Katia Cylene Guimarães, Luiza Antas Rabelo, Valéria Nunes-Souza, Luis Fernando Souza Caixeta, Reginaldo Nassar Ferreira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0214626

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