The evaluation of the apparent nutrient
digestibility of solid feeds in veal calves is
important particularly when considering that
the increasing prices of milk-replacer spurred
farmers to partially replace liquid diet by
fibrous feed and solid feeds became a consistent
part of the diet. The positive effect
observed on growth performance in the early
stage of fattening with a solid feed mixture
based on corn grain, straw and extruded soybean
suggests a good potential of this feeding
strategy. However, the lower protein digestibility
of this solid feed mixture indicated that protein
quality should be an important issue when
formulating diets for veal calves in which milkderived
proteins are partially substituted by