ArticleAnimal nutrition (Zhongguo xu mu shou yi xue hui)2025
Phosphorus has a crucial role in growth performance of calves fed starters with incorporated forage.
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- Effects of Dietary NFC/NDF and Allicin Supplementation on Serum Electrolytes, Nitrogen and Phosphorus Excretion, and Fecal Microbiota in Beef Bulls.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- Effects of Initiation Age of Starter Feeding on Growth Performance, Immunity and Antioxidant Capacity, Gastrointestinal Development, and Microbial Communities in Suckling Lambs.Microorganisms · 2025Article
- Changes in Ruminal Fermentation and Growth Performance in Calves After Increasing Ruminal Undegradable Protein at Two Different Time Points Pre-Weaning.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
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Abstract
Forage addition (FA) to starter diets has favorable effects on ruminal development but may reduce starter intake and growth. The latter reductions may be related to an inability of the insufficiently developed ruminal microbiota to effectively use forage. Based on the crucial role of phosphorus (P) for ruminal microbial activity and the overall insufficient knowledge on the interaction of dietary fiber and P in young calves, this study hypothesized that limited availability of dietary P may contribute to the reduced intake and performance in forage-supplemented calves. Consequently, the current study evaluated the effects of forage feeding level (no alfalfa hay [NAH] vs. 100 g of chopped alfalfa hay [AH] per kg of starter) at either 0.4% P (0.4P) or 0.8% P (0.8P) on growth performance, digestibility of nutrients, ruminal fermentation, and microbial protein synthesis (MPS). Forty-eight female Holstein calves (39.2 ± 3.7 kg) were assigned randomly to the four experimental treatments including NAH-0.4P, NAH-0.8P, AH-0.4P, and AH-0.8P (
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