Table 5 Feed intake, nutrients digestibility and feeding value of Farafra sheep fed different experimental diets
Item | Experimental diets | SE | Sig | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SBM | BCSM | CSM | SSM | |||
Av. body wt. (kg) | 58.17 | 52.17 | 51.58 | 54.00 | 1.39 | NS |
DM intake (g/head/day) | ||||||
Concentrate | 831.00 | 928.46 | 924.01 | 936.43 | 25.71 | NS |
Roughage | 239.08 | 156.39 | 212.99 | 217.74 | 22.69 | NS |
Total | 1070.08 | 1084.85 | 1137.00 | 1154.17 | 30.82 | NS |
DM intake (g/kg w0.75) | ||||||
Concentrate | 14.44 | 18.00 | 18.05 | 17.35 | 0.73 | NS |
Roughage | 4.05 | 3.02 | 4.24 | 4.05 | 0.41 | NS |
Total | 18.49 | 21.02 | 22.29 | 21.40 | 0.91 | NS |
Nutrients digestibility (%) | ||||||
DM | 69.18a | 62.14b | 70.58a | 71.49a | 1.44 | * |
OM | 72.20a | 64.85b | 75.05a | 74.12a | 1.47 | * |
CP | 66.20b | 59.28c | 77.24a | 71.09ab | 2.23 | ** |
CF | 54.14a | 49.46b | 56.82a | 48.73b | 1.44 | * |
EE | 51.90c | 61.84b | 70.18a | 56.37bc | 2.65 | * |
NFE | 80.89 | 79.42 | 83.47 | 83.36 | 1.04 | NS |
Feeding value (%) | ||||||
TDN | 69.27 | 65.82 | 73.51 | 71.91 | 1.24 | NS |
DCP | 8.05b | 7.58b | 9.67a | 8.93ab | 0.31 | * |