Table 5.

Mean in vitro dry matter (DM) and neutral detergent fiber (NDF) digestibility of the feedstuffs (N = 16) incubated or not (CON) with a Bacillus-based direct-fed microbial (DFM) that were used herein and by Pan et al. (2022)¹

Item	Treatments		SEM	P-value
	CON	DFM
In vitro DM digestibility, %
24 h	38.0	41.5	2.69	0.03
48 h	57.0	61.3	2.71	0.01
In vitro NDF digestibility, %
24 h	18.9	24.4	2.41	0.01
48 h	42.5	49.5	3.33	< 0.01

¹ DFM, Bacillus-based direct-fed microbial incubated in the rumen fluid (B. licheniformis and B. subtilis; BOVACILLUS, Chr. Hansen A/S).