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Table 2 Daily feed and nutrient intake of Farta sheep fed urea-treated rice straw supplemented with Sesbania sesban

From: Nutrient intake, digestibility, growth performance and carcass characteristics of Farta sheep fed urea-treated rice straw supplemented with graded levels of dried Sesbania sesban leaves

Intake (g/day)

Treatment feeds

 

T 1

T 2

T 3

T 4

T 5

SL

Basal (UTRS) DMI

696.00a

691.33a

640.56b

631.41b

615.72b

***

SSL DMI

100d

200c

300b

400a

***

Total DMI

696.00e

796.00d

840.56c

931.41b

1015.72a

***

DM intake (%BW)

3b

3.1ab

3.2ab

3.4ab

3.6a

*

Total OMI

536.72d

611.17c

620.10c

717.21b

768.4a

***

Total CPI

69.59e

98.27d

114.98c

148.39b

169.46a

***

Total NDFI

508.70bc

536.42ab

496.16c

552.84a

564.37a

***

Total ADFI

447.24b

465.53ab

462.06ab

469.5ab

474.08a

**

Total ADLI

201.40ab

208.80a

190.48b

212.49a

212.87a

**

  1. T1 = UMTRS, T2 = UTRS + 100 g SS DM, T3 = UMTRS + 200 g SS DM, T4 = UMTRS + 300 g SS DM, T5 = UMTRS + 400 g SS DM, UMTRS urea molasses-treated rice straw, SSL Sesbania sesban leaves, SEM standard error of mean, SL significance level
  2. abcMeans with different superscripts in a row are significantly different at ***(P < 0.001); **(P < 0.01); *(P < 0.05)