Table 1. Chemical composition of concentrate diets and roughage
Composition | Concentrate | Roughage | SEM |
Fattening | Finishing | Rice straw |
Moisture | 12.64 ± 0.15 | 13.10 ± 0.01 | 9.59 ± 0.16 | 0.11 |
Crude protein | 15.90 ± 0.17 | 11.68 ± 0.12 | 3.65 ± 0.13 | 0.08 |
Crude fat | 2.45 ± 0.07 | 3.41 ± 0.06 | 0.93 ± 0.01 | 0.03 |
Crude fiber | 9.82 ± 0.04 | 10.15 ± 0.04 | 31.80 ± 0.20 | 0.09 |
Crude ash | 4.38 ± 0.09 | 3.31 ± 0.07 | 9.43 ± 0.06 | 0.07 |
NFE | 54.84 ± 0.43 | 58.46 ± 0.07 | 44.59 ± 0.44 | 0.31 |
Ca | 0.45 ± 0.01 | 0.39 ± 0.01 | 0.19 ± 0.02 | 0.01 |
P | 0.37 ± 0.01 | 0.30 ± 0.01 | 0.15 ± 0.02 | 0.01 |
TDN | 72.00 | 76.00 | 37.60 | |
NFE, nitrogen free extract; TDN, total digestible nutrient (calculated).