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Table 4 Apparent digestibility coefficients of nutrients in sheep fed natural pasture hay mixture as a basal diet and supplemented with noug seed cake and wheat bran mixture and ficus leaves

From: Nutrient intake, digestibility and growth performance of Washera lambs fed natural pasture hay supplemented with graded levels of Ficus thonningii(Chibha) leaves as replacement for concentrate mixture

Parameters

Treatments (%)

T1

T2

T3

T4

T5

SEM

SL

DMDC

0.77a

0. 75a

0.73ab

0.71ab

0.69b

0.012

***

OMDC

0.79a

0.78ab

0.75abc

0.74bc

0.71c

0.011

***

CPDC

0.79a

0.77a

0.69b

0.62c

0.60c

0.013

***

NDFDC

0.66a

0.58ab

0.54ab

0.51ab

0.44b

0.040

***

ADFDC

0.63a

0.56ab

0.53abc

0.49bc

0.42c

0.042

***

  1. a b cLetters in the same row having different superscript are significantly different; DMDC dry matter digestibility coefficient, OMDC organic matter digestibility coefficient, CPDC crude protein digestibility coefficient, NDFDC neutral detergent fiber digestibility coefficient, ADFDC acid detergent fiber digestibility coefficient; *** (P < 0.001); SEM standard error of mean; SL significance level, Ns nonsignificant, NPH natural pasture hay, FTL Ficus thonningii leaves, CM concentrate mixture, T1 = NPH + 0 g FTL +215 g CM; T2 = NPH + 112.5 g FTL +161.25 g CM; T3 = NPH + 225 g FTL +107.5 g CM; T4 = NPH + 337.5 g FTL +53.75 g CM; T5 = NPH + 450 g FTL +0 g CM