Table 3 Ingredients and proximate composition of diets fed to heifers
| Â | Dieta | |
|---|---|---|
Item | LS | HS |
Ingredients, % of DM | Â | Â |
 Corn meal (0.5 mm) | 23.0 | 34.0 |
 Hay | 24.0 | 22.0 |
 Dehydrated alfalfa hay | 18.0 | 16.0 |
 Extruded soybean hull | 7.0 | 2.0 |
 Barley meal | 7.0 | 9.0 |
 Straw | 6.5 | 5.5 |
 Molasses | 2.0 | 2.0 |
 Sugar beet dry pulps | 4.0 | 1.0 |
 Corn gluten meal | 6.0 | 2.0 |
 Sunflower | - | 2.0 |
 Soybean meal | - | 2.0 |
 Vitamin and mineral mix | 1.5 | 1.5 |
 Extruded de-hulled soybean | 1.0 | 1.0 |
 Proximate composition |  |  |
DM, % | 88.9 | 88.8 |
 Crude protein, % of DM | 12.5 | 12.5 |
 Crude fat, % of DM | 3.5 | 3.3 |
 NDF, % of DM | 39.8 | 33.6 |
 Crude ash, % of DM | 7.8 | 7.4 |
 ADF, % of DM | 21.4 | 19.2 |
 NFC,b % of DM | 36.4 | 43.2 |
 Starch, % of DM | 24.0 | 30.0 |