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Table 3 Nitrogen digestibility of weaner rabbits fed rumen content with or without enzyme supplementation in replacing groundnut cake

From: RETRACTED ARTICLE: Effects of replacing groundnut cake with rumen content supplemented with or without enzyme in the diet of weaner rabbits

 

Nitrogen

Feacal

Urinary

Total nitrogen

Nitrogen

Nitrogen

 

intake (g/day)

Nitrogen (g/day)

Nitrogen

Output

retained (g)

digestibility (%)

Levels of Rumen content (%)

0

3.58a

2.29a

0.47a

0.49a

1.24c

63.97c

25

3.53b

2.26b

0.45a

0.45b

1.26b

64.21b

50

3.51c

2.23c

0.46a

0.41c

1.29a

64.96a

SEM

0.0113

0.0065

0.0033

0.0052

0.0053

0.0158

Significance

*

*

NS

*

*

*

Supplements

      

NSA

3.54a

2.29a

0.46a

0.43b

1.24b

64.37a

Enzyme

3.53a

2.26b

0.47a

0.48a

1.27a

64.33b

(Maxigrain)

      

SEM

0.0043

0.0097

0.0037

0.0058

0.0057

0.0873

Significance

NS

*

NS

*

*

*

Rumen content*Supplement

NS

*

NS

*

*

*

  1. SEM- Standard Error of mean
  2. Means with different superscripts along the same column are significantly different (P < 0.05)
  3. NS- Not significantly different (P > 0.05)
  4. SEM- Standard Error of mean
  5. Means with different superscripts (a,b,c) along the same column are significantly different (P < 0.05)