Among and within blocks, the initiation of
treatments was staggered such that animal slaughters
were conducted at predefined intervals to facilitate tissue
sample collection while maintaining a constant 35-d
treatment period. Treatments included a pelleted basal
diet (Table 1) fed at 161 (LI) or 214 (HI) kcal of ME/
(kg of BW0.75d), LI plus ruminal (R-SH) or abomasal
(A-SH) infusion of a partial starch hydrolysate (SH),
and LI plus abomasal infusion of glucose (A-G)