Ruminal Degradability and Summative Models Evaluation for Total Digestible Nutrients Prediction of Some Forages and Byproducts in Goats

Table 3

Means and standard errors for in situ DM (ISDMD) and NDF degradability (ISNDFD) in nylon bag at 48 h of incubation.

Feed	ISDMD-48	ISNDFD-48
Discarded corn	65.5^d	65.3^b
Discarded sorghum	67.3^d	52.6^c
Discarded sesame	57.0^e	22.1^f
Citrus pulp	96.4^a	92.0^a
Sugar cane, whole plant, 6 months	47.1^fg	42.1^de
Forage sorghum	47.5^fg	50.1^c
Bermudagrass	45.9^fg	46.6^cd
Brachiaria	58.4^e	49.3^cd
King grass	46.0^fg	46.1^cd
Kikuyu grass	49.1^f	54.6^c
Guinea grass	64.5^d	66.8^b
Stargrass, 20 days	67.7^d	69.8^b
Standard error	1.6	2.7

a,b,c,d,e,f,g, means within a column with different superscripts differ (P < 0.05).