Table 2. Chemical composition of concentrate and roughage diets for experimental groups
Composition | Concentrate | Roughage | SEM |
Fattening | Finishing | Rice straw |
T11) | T2 | T3 | T4 |
Moisture | 12.45 | 12.13 | 12.22 | 12.88 | 9.42 | 0.13 |
Crude protein | 15.21 | 15.34 | 11.88 | 11.62 | 3.55 | 0.16 |
Crude fat | 2.52 | 2.48 | 3.87 | 3.52 | 0.91 | 0.04 |
Crude fiber | 9.75 | 9.81 | 10.59 | 10.14 | 32.01 | 0.07 |
Crude ash | 4.36 | 4.12 | 3.51 | 3.30 | 9.12 | 0.08 |
NFE | 55.71 | 56.12 | 57.93 | 58.54 | 55.01 | 0.30 |
Ca | 0.45 | 0.43 | 0.32 | 0.37 | 0.18 | 0.07 |
P | 0.30 | 0.31 | 0.30 | 0.30 | 0.16 | 0.01 |
TDN2) | 70.00 | 72.00 | 74.00 | 76.00 | 37.57 | |
Each group were set to 70% (T1) and 72% (T2) during fattening phase and 74% (T3) and 76% (T4) for the finishing phase, respectively.
Calculated.
NFE, nitrogen-free extract; TDN, total digestible nutrient.