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Table 4 Main effect of biological treatments, roughage sources and replacement levels on growth performance of the experimental groups

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

Item

Biological treatments

Roughage sources

Replacement levels

Without fungi

With fungi

SEM

Rice straw (RS)

Corn stalks (CS)

SEM

0%

33%

66%

100%

SEM

Initial weight (IW), g

570

560

13.57

568

562

13.57

566

565

570

559

13.57

Final weight (FW), g

2089b

2246a

21.82

2179

2157

21.82

2082c

2364a

2221b

2004c

21.82

Total body weight gain (TBWG), g

1519b

1686a

17.55

611a

1595b

17.55

1516c

1799a

1651b

1445d

17.55

Duration period

91 days

Average daily gain (ADG), g

16.69b

18.53a

0.19

17.70a

17.53b

0.19

16.66c

19.77a

18.14b

15.88d

0.19

Dry matter intake (DMI), g

89.62

89.26

1.38

87.20

91.68

1.38

88.69

89.17

90.02

89.90

1.38

Feed conversion expressed as (g DM intake/g gain)

5.40a

4.89b

0.09

4.98b

5.30a

0.09

5.23b

4.53c

5.04b

5.71a

0.09

  1. a, b, c, and d: means within each treatment having different superscripts differ significantly (P < 0.05). SEM standard error of the mean