Ground Wheat Grain for Midlactation Cows: Challenging a Common Wisdom

Table 3

Treatment effects on body weigh (BW), body condition score (BCS), and back-fat thickness in cows fed either finely or coarsely ground wheat grain (GW) at higher and lower inclusion rates.

	Grinding extent (GE)
GW level (GL) %	Coarser		Finer			𝑃 value
	10%	20%	10%	20%	SE	GE	GL	GE × GL
BW, kg	588.1	595.6	591.4	595.9	6.30	0.68	0.19	0.74
BW changes, kg/d	0.50	0.73	0.61	1.06	0.38	0.42	0.22	0.70
BCS	3.34	3.19	3.03	3.25	0.08	0.05	0.61	0.01
Unit BCS changes	0.12	0.00	−0.19	−0.01	0.13	0.11	0.75	0.12
Back fat thickness, mm	21.6	20.4	21.4	23.0	1.00	0.10	0.82	0.07