Item | Biological treatments | Roughage sources | Replacement levels | ||||||||
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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 |