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Table 5 Digestible nutrient intake and apparent nutrient digestibility of different diets fed to sheep1),2)

From: Effect of feeding a by-product feed-based silage on nutrients intake, apparent digestibility, and nitrogen balance in sheep

Item

Diet with

SE

Rye straw

BF-based silage3)

Digestible nutrient intake(g/d)

Dry matter

575.3a

560.1b

6.3

Organic matter

553.7a

536.7b

5.8

Crude protein

67.4a

99.1b

1.1

Ether extract

10.4a

23.3b

0.6

Neutral detergent fiber

223.0a

180.5b

4.1

Acid detergent fiber

124.7a

113.2b

3.5

Hemicellulose

98.4a

67.3b

1.4

Crude fiber

91.0a

74.7b

2.3

Nitrogen free extracts

384.9a

339.7b

3.6

Crude ash

21.6

23.3

2.2

Apparent digestibility (%)

Dry matter

67.7a

65.9b

0.8

Organic matter

69.9

69.8

0.7

Crude protein

68.8

70.1

0.9

Ether extract

76.8a

89.2b

2.8

Neutral detergent fiber

56.2a

53.3b

1.1

Acid detergent fiber

51.6

48.8

1.5

Hemicellulose

63.3

63.0

1.1

Crude fiber

48.9a

45.7b

1.3

Nitrogen free extracts

77.8

77.6

0.8

Crude ash

37.5a

28.7b

2.7

Total digestible nutrients (%)

66.7

66.6

0.7

  1. 1)On a dry matter basis
  2. 2)Means of 6 observations
  3. 3)By-product feed-based silage
  4. a,bMeans with different superscripts within the same row are significantly different (p < 0.05)