ReviewTropical animal health and production2026
Boosting pre-weaning growth and feed efficiency in suckling calves: replacing starch with dry corn gluten feed.
Review in Tropical animal health and production, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
This study examined how varying levels of by-product substitution for human-edible (HE) feed ingredients affected nutrient consumption, growth performance, feed conversion, skeletal characteristics, and nutritional behavior in Holstein calves. Forty-four calves (3 days old; initial body weight 40.1 ± 1.5 kg) were randomly assigned to one of four dietary treatments in a completely randomized design (n = 11 per group). Diets contained 0, 150, 300, or 450 g/kg dry matter (DM) of corn gluten feed (CGF), corresponding to 0, 15, 30, and 45% of DM, respectively. Growth performance indicators, including dry matter intake (DMI), average daily gain (ADG), and body weight (BW), improved in calves receiving 15% CGF, which consistently showed the highest intake and growth, particularly during the mid growth phase; BW and ADG responded quadratically to CGF level (P ≤ 0.01), whereas DMI and starter intake (SI) responded linearly (P ≤ 0.04), identifying 15% CGF as the optimal inclusion level. Skeletal measurements, including withers height, hip height, and heart girth, were likewise greatest in calves fed 15 and 30% CGF, with significant quadratic responses (P ≤ 0.05), although body length, body barrel, hip width, and pin width did not differ among treatments. Nutritional behavior, including eating, ruminating, and non-nutritive oral activities, did not differ significantly among treatments either before or after weaning (P > 0.05). In conclusion, moderate inclusion of CGF (15% of DM) provided the greatest benefits for calf growth, nutrient intake, and skeletal development, while higher inclusion levels (45%) resulted in diminishing returns, particularly in feed efficiency (FE). These findings suggest that incorporating CGF at optimal levels can enhance calf development without compromising feed quality.
Indexed as
Identifiers
42714757What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.