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Table 4 Body weight change of Farta sheep fed urea treatment rice straw supplemented with graded leaves of dried Sesbania sesban leaves

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

Parameters

Treatments

T 1

T 2

T 3

T 4

T 5

SL

Initial body weight (kg)

19.18a

18.56a

18.54a

19.08a

18.16a

ns

Final body weight (kg)

17.44c

19.46bc

19.54bc

21.40ab

22.22a

**

Body weight change (kg)

− 1.74c

0.90b

1.00b

2.32ab

4.06a

***

ADG (g/day)

− 19.33c

10.00b

11.11b

25.77ab

45.11a

***

FCE (g ADG/g TDMI)

− 0.028c

0.012b

0.014b

0.027a

0.044a

***

  1. NS nonsignificant, ADG average daily gain, FCE feed conversion efficiency
  2. abcMeans with different superscripts in a row are significantly different at ***(P < 0.001); **(P < 0.01)