“…The progressive increase in feed quantity, reduced negative nitrogen balance, and the precision method produced lower EEL values than the CAM (Sibbald, 1975(Sibbald, , 1981. However, the standard deviation and coef cient of determination (r 2 ) were low (0·32) for both procedures, but the CAM was more favourable in this respect than precision feeding (Ackerson et al, 1929). There were substantial differences between the intercepts and regression coefcients for the two methods, which may in uence the TME values since, for a given TME value, AME depends on EEL per unit of feed intake (Sibbald, 1975).…”