Research Article
Ruminal Degradability and Summative Models Evaluation for Total Digestible Nutrients Prediction of Some Forages and Byproducts in Goats
Table 1
Chemical composition of evaluated feed.
| | Feed | DM % | | OM | CP | EE | NDF | ADF | L | NDICP | ADICP | NFC1 |
| | Discarded corn | 92.4 | 10.3 | 2.4 | 57.3 | 21.0 | 6.7 | 5.8 | 3.3 | 28.2 | | Discarded sorghum | 93.1 | 7.9 | 2.2 | 43.9 | 23.1 | 6.8 | 5.5 | 2.1 | 44.5 | | Discarded sesame | 73.7 | 5.2 | 13.6 | 32.8 | 50.8 | 6.8 | 4.9 | 2.6 | 26.9 | | Citrus pulp | 94.9 | 6.1 | 3.1 | 25.9 | 28.9 | 6.4 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 61.0 | | Sugar cane, whole plant, 6 months | 96.3 | 4.3 | 0.8 | 63.9 | 38.6 | 6.5 | 3.2 | 2.0 | 30.5 | | Forage sorghum | 93.1 | 5.3 | 0.9 | 68.9 | 46.4 | 9.0 | 5.5 | 3.3 | 23.5 | | Bermudagrass | 90.3 | 8.0 | 1.0 | 77.9 | 46.5 | 6.6 | 6.0 | 2.6 | 9.3 | | Brachiaria | 95.8 | 7.1 | 1.6 | 77.0 | 41.9 | 8.7 | 5.7 | 2.9 | 15.8 | | King grass | 93.1 | 5.8 | 1.6 | 73.0 | 47.0 | 5.9 | 3.9 | 2.2 | 16.7 | | Kikuyu grass | 85.2 | 7.4 | 0.8 | 73.2 | 42.8 | 7.8 | 5.4 | 2.0 | 9.1 | | Guinea grass | 87.1 | 12.7 | 1.9 | 71.6 | 46.3 | 8.3 | 7.1 | 1.7 | 8.0 | | Stargrass, 20 days | 90.8 | 17.7 | 1.4 | 70.5 | 40.0 | 6.1 | 8.8 | 1.8 | 9.9 |
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NFC, %: 100 − [CP% + (NDF% − NDICP%) + EE% + Ash%], where, NDICP: neutral detergent insoluble crude protein, EE: ether extract.
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