Table 5. Effects of dietary NTS supplementation in lactation diet on amino acid composition in milk

Item Treatments1) SEM p-value
Control NTS0.1 NTS0.2 NTS0.4 Lin. Quad.
Cysteine (mg/kg)
  Colostrum ---------62.07--------- - - -
  14th day of lactation 64.14 48.51 50.88 51.19 2.000 0.02 0.02
  21st day of lactation 43.89 52.06 54.40 34.35 2.196 0.48 0.13
Methionine (mg/kg)
  Colostrum ---------56.61-------- - - -
  14th day of lactation 51.67 38.87 37.61 49.06 3.644 0.89 0.14
  21st day of lactation 65.28 43.94 34.35 40.45 5.071 0.03 0.06
Treatment: Con, corn-soybean meal (SBM) based diet; T1, corn-soybean meal based diet with 0.1% of NTS (non-toxic sulfur); T2, corn-soybean meal based diet with 0.2% of NTS; T3, corn-soybean meal based diet with 0.4% of NTS.
Lin., linear; Quad., quadratic.