Criteria | Treatment | SEMb | P-value | |||||
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Con | CM10 | CM15 | CM20 | CM25 | Lin. | Quad. | ||
Nutrient digestibility (%) | ||||||||
Dry matter | 85.69 | 86.79 | 83.65 | 84.60 | 85.82 | 0.433 | 0.39 | 0.12 |
Crude protein | 83.19 | 83.93 | 80.95 | 80.76 | 80.68 | 0.551 | 0.02 | 0.73 |
Crude fat | 56.71 | 58.13 | 56.35 | 55.82 | 58.32 | 0.976 | 0.49 | 0.63 |
Crude ash | 65.47 | 67.57 | 60.99 | 64.45 | 64.00 | 1.184 | 0.87 | 0.60 |
Nitrogen retentionc, g/day | ||||||||
N-intake | 16.60 | 16.74 | 16.70 | 16.58 | 16.49 | 0.186 | 0.75 | 0.71 |
N-feces | 2.80 | 2.69 | 3.19 | 3.20 | 3.19 | 0.112 | 0.05 | 0.66 |
N-urine | 10.17 | 10.55 | 9.95 | 10.21 | 10.22 | 0.141 | 0.84 | 0.94 |
N-retention | 3.63 | 3.50 | 3.55 | 3.16 | 3.09 | 0.127 | 0.08 | 0.70 |
N-digestibility (%) | 21.81 | 20.90 | 21.24 | 19.10 | 18.73 | 0.692 | 0.13 | 0.81 |