The greater ammonia concentration in the rumen of rams at pasture illustrates the greater selective behavior of the rams and explains this difference in OMDCPf, whereas, the difference in OMICPf was linked to differences in prehensibility of forage between the two feeding systems.
A small but significant change in SBT was detected between the two feeding treatments, with food deprivation leading to a mean decrease ranging from 0.43±0.55 to 0.72±0.46 °C (at different times of day) in females and from 0.61±0.71 to 2.13±0.76 °C in males.
Birth weight, length, head circumference and gestational age were not different between the two feeding groups (p > 0.05).
There were no significant differences (p > 0.05) in study formula intake or HM intake between the two feeding groups (Table 4).
This sample size is large enough to detect a clinically meaningful difference of 3 days in time to establish full enteral feeds between the two feeding policies, with 90% power and a 5% 2-sided significance level.
There were no significant differences (p > 0.05) between the two feeding groups in study entry information, study completion rate, adverse events (AEs & SAEs), and other demographic data (Table 2).
As parasite within-host growth did not differ between P-sufficient and P-limited hosts, the difference in parasite loads between the two feeding treatments might have simply reflected differences in the per capita exposure rates to spores because of differences in population densities.
