Supplementary data to publication "Effects of milk replacer (MR) meal size on feed intake, growth performance, and blood metabolites and hormones of calves fed MR with or without butyrate ad libitum: A cluster-analytic approach"

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10.22000/361 Ghaffari, Morteza Morteza Ghaffari 0000-0002-5811-3492 Hammon, Harald Harald Hammon 0000-0001-8698-1257 Koch, Christian Christian Koch 0000-0002-0695-5110 Supplementary data to publication "Effects of milk replacer (MR) meal size on feed intake, growth performance, and blood metabolites and hormones of calves fed MR with or without butyrate ad libitum: A cluster-analytic approach" Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), Wilhelm-Stahl-Allee 2, 18196 Dummerstorf, Germany 2020 2021 Agriculture calf, cluster analysis, ad libitum feeding Supplemental Table S1, Figure S1 Open Access Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), Wilhelm-Stahl-Allee 2, 18196 Dummerstorf, Germany Ad libitum MR-fed calves vary in their feeding behavior and individual feed intake during the preweaning period. This study intended to classify ad libitum MR-fed calves according to their individual voluntary MR intake using a clustering approach. Analysis allowed discriminating two groups of calves with different MR meal size (HIGH; 2.2 ± 0.11 L MR/visit; LOW; 1.8 ± 0.07 L MR/visit). Differences in feeding behaviors were linked to growth performance and metabolic changes. en 10.3168/jds.2020-18626 application/x-tar