Irish Veterinary Journal

Table 2 Effect of milk feeding frequency and turnout age on average daily weight gain (kg)-Experiment 1

From: Effect of milk feed source, frequency of feeding and age at turnout on calf performance, live-weight at mating and 1^st lactation milk production

Day	OD	TD	ODO	s.e	Sig
10-24	0.24	0.33	0.28	0.07	NS
25-38	0.74^a	0.60^a	0.44^b	0.07	*
39-52	1.01^a	0.96^a	0.66^b	0.07	**
53-66	0.57^a	0.97^b	0.59^a	0.07	**
67-80	0.72^a	0.63^a	1.26^b	0.08	***
10-80	0.67	0.69	0.64	0.03	NS
80-410	0.66	0.68	0.69	0.02	NS

OD = once a day, TD = twice a day, ODO = once a day/outdoor.

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