Table 8. Nutrient digestibility of goats fed ground and flaked corn (%/d, DM basis)

Item	Treatment¹⁾			SEM	p-value
Item	Ground	Flake_48	Flake_62	SEM	Overall	Ground vs. Flake
Dry matter	71.34	71.43	70.80	0.500	0.43	0.61
Organic matter	73.62	73.61	73.09	0.480	0.46	0.53
Crude fiber	63.17^ab	63.89^a	60.77^b	0.943	0.04	0.42
Crude protein	69.50	67.73	67.10	0.727	0.07	0.03
Ether extract	88.25^a	86.28^b	86.17^b	0.481	0.01	< 0.01
Ash	40.73	41.04	37.51	1.474	0.19	0.42

Ground, ground corn; Flake_(% gelatinization).
Means that do not have common superscripts significantly differ within the samples (p < 0.05).
DM, dry matter.