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Table 5 Effect of dietary containing kitchen food wastes (KFW) on caecal pH, ammonia nitrogen (NH₃–N) and volatile fatty acids (VFA’s) of growing rabbits

From: Using dried kitchen food wastes as untraditional feed in growing rabbit^'s diets

Items	Control	KFW				SEM	P value
Items	Control	10%	20%	30%	40%	SEM	P value
pH	6.25	6.24	6.31	6.33	6.39	0.28	0.663
NH_3-N₃ (mmol/l)	5.45^b	5.58^b	5.69^b	5.81^ab	5.97^a	0.13	0.032
TVFA’s (mmol/l)	62.87^a	62.83^a	62.89a	63.07^a	61.22^b	0.47	0.001
VFA's percentage (%)
Acetate	74.85^b	74.63^b	74.49^b	74.33^b	76.94^a	0.87	0.016
Propionate	08.56^b	08.81^a	08.95^a	09.37^a	06.88^c	0.22	0.037
Butyrate	14.07	14.22	14.31	14.52	14.96	0.87	0.672

^a,b,cMean in the same row bearing different superscripts are significantly different

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