Nutritional impact of partial or complete replacement of clover hay by untreated or biologically treated rice straw and corn stalks on: 1. growth performance and economic evaluation of growing New Zealand (NZW) White rabbits

Omer, Hamed A. A.; Ahmed, Sawsan M.; El-Kady, Roshdy I.; El-Shahat, Aly A.; El-Ayek, Mahmoud Y.; El-Nattat, Walid S.; Morad, Ashraf A. A.

doi:10.1186/s42269-019-0235-2

Bulletin of the National Research Centre

Table 3 Chemical analysis of the experimental rations

From: Nutritional impact of partial or complete replacement of clover hay by untreated or biologically treated rice straw and corn stalks on: 1. growth performance and economic evaluation of growing New Zealand (NZW) White rabbits

Ingredients	Clover hay (CH) control	Rice straw (RS)						Corn stalks (CS)
	Clover hay (CH) control	Without Pleurotus ostreatus			With Pleurotus ostreatus			Without Trichoderma reesei			With Trichoderma reesei
	0%	33%	66%	100%	33%	66%	100%	33%	66%	100%	33%	66%	100%
Moisture	13.88	10.05	9.78	90.83	7.38	9.17	7.52	8.79	8.90	8.89	8.46	8.57	9.03
Chemical analysis on dry matter (%)
Organic matter (OM)	74.25	88.11	87.45	86.03	89.24	86.08	83.76	90.14	89.86	88.45	88.98	88.64	87.93
Crude protein (CP)	17.03	17.05	17.02	17.03	17.21	17.21	17.76	16.99	17.02	17.09	18.11	16.95	16.57
Crude fiber (CF)	14.07	13.39	12.59	12.16	12.20	10.76	8.58	13.37	12.56	12.56	11.38	10.36	10.07
Ether extract (EE)	2.50	2.36	2.23	2.29	2.35	2.15	2.30	2.56	2.39	2.28	2.57	2.32	2.50
Nitrogen-free extract	40.65	55.31	55.61	54.55	57.48	55.96	55.12	57.22	57.89	56.52	56.92	59.01	58.79
(NFE) Ash	25.75	11.89	12.55	13.97	10.76	13.92	16.24	9.86	10.14	11.55	11.02	11.36	12.07
Calculated*
Digestible energy (DE)	2513	2496	2491	2453	2493	2445	2444	2503	2595	2412	2518	2501	2425
Calcium (Ca)	1.08	1.03	0.98	1.02	0.90	0.92	0.97	1.04	1.01	1.03	0.97	0.92	0.96
Tryptophane	0.80	0.82	0.79	0.80	0.85	0.80	0.82	0.80	0.79	0.80	0.82	0.79	0.83
Lysine	0.89	0.83	0.77	0.72	0.86	0.40	0.71	0.85	0.80	0.74	0.85	0.71	0.63
Methionine + cestine	0.55	0.55	0.56	0.57	0.55	0.53	0.57	0.57	0.57	0.58	0.56	0.46	0.54
Sodium	0.20	0.19	0.18	0.17	0.19	0.79	0.18	0.19	0.18	0.17	0.17	0.18	0.17
Cell wall constituents %
Neutral detergent fiber (NDF)	33.84	30.32	28.49	25.29	24.02	28.60	26.28	30.46	32.12	28.49	37.97	35.24	31.68
Acid detergent fiber (ADF)	18.17	14.42	15.83	14.18	13.95	13.32	13.49	14.74	17.72	14.73	17.54	15.38	16.90
Acid detergent lignin (ADL)	12.89	10.83	5.40	3.63	11.59	6.12	2.81	3.84	7.22	2.99	6.52	8.56	5.88
Hemicellulose**	15.67	15.90	13.11	11.11	10.07	15.28	12.79	15.72	14.40	13.76	20.43	19.86	14.78
Cellulose***	5.28	3.59	10.43	10.50	2.36	7.20	10.68	10.90	10.50	11.74	11.02	6.82	11.02

*Calculated according to NRC 1977. **Hemicellulose = NDF – ADF. ***Cellulose = ADF – ADL

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