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Table 1 Effects of high-concentrate diet feeding and thiamine supplementation on milk quality and Ammonia-N content

From: Metagenomic insights into effects of thiamine supplementation on ruminal non-methanogen archaea in high-concentrate diets feeding dairy cows

Item

Experimental treatments

SEM

P-value

CON

HC

HCT

Milk fat (%)

3.850a

3.395b

3.680a

0.126

0.046

Milk protein (%)

3.110

3.050

3.080

0.061

0.106

Ammonia-N(mg/100 mL)

10.495b

13.863a

11.377b

1.711

0.006

  1. CON control diet, HC high-concentrate diet, HCT high-concentrate diet supplemented with 180 mg thiamine/kg DMI, SEM standard error of the mean
  2. a, bmeans within a row with different letters differed significantly (P < 0.05)