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

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Table 5 Effect of interactions between biological treatments, roughage source and replacement levels (T × S × L) on nutrient growth performance of the experimental groups

Item	Clover hay (CH) Control	Rice straw (RS)						Corn stalks (CS)
		Without			With			Without			With
		Pleurotus ostreatus			Pleurotus ostreatus			Trichoderma reesei			Trichoderma reesei
	0	33	66	100	33	66	100	33	66	100	33	66	100
	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%
	R₁	R₂	R₃	R₄	R₅	R₆	R₇	R₈	R₉	R₁₀	R₁₁	R₁₂	R₁₃	SEM
Initial weight (IW), g	566^ef	564^bcd	577^de	567^ef	553^ab	570^bc	583^ef	568^cde	581^ef	570^ef	576^a	554^abc	514^ef	13.57
Final weight (FW),g	2086	2289	2151	1950	2446	2335	2087	2207	2055	1900	2515	2344	2080	21.82
Total body weight gain (TBWG), g	1528^g	1725^d	1574^f	1383ⁱ	1893^b	1765^c	1504^g	1639^e	1474^h	1330^j	1939^a	1790^c	1566^g	17.55
Duration period											91 days
Average daily gain (ADG), g	16.70^g	18.96^d	17.30^f	15.20ⁱ	20.80^b	19.40^c	16.53^gh	18.01^e	16.20^h	14.62^j	21.31^a	19.67^c	17.21^g	0.19
Dry matter intake (DMI), g	88.83	82.34	89.25	89.66	83.87	87.93	85.10	92.60	93.04	89.31	94.00	89.86	95.54	1.38
Feed conversion expressed as (g DM intake / g gain)	5.32^ab	4.34^bc	5.16^ab	5.90^a	4.05^c	4.59^bc	5.14^ab	5.08^abc	5.80^a	6.08^a	4.43^bc	4.62^bc	5.72^a	0.09

a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, and j: means in the same row having different superscripts differ significantly (P < 0.05). SEM standard error of the mean