. 2024 Mar 5;102:skae057. doi: 10.1093/jas/skae057

Table 4.

Food intake, fecal output, and apparent total tract macronutrient digestibility in adult canine consuming treatment diets containing different protein sources

Item	Treatment					SEM
Item	CONd	5% CLHd	CLHd	5% CHd	CHd	SEM
Food intake, g/d (as-is)	152.4	149.7	152.6	152.5	145.9	5.10
Food intake, g/d (DM)	138.0	135.9	139.4	137.6	133.4	4.63
Fecal output, g/d (as-is)	81.4^b	77.7^b	102.8^a	98.1^a	77.2^b	6.73
Fecal output, g/d (DM)	25.5^b	25.3^b	29.8^a	29.7^a	25.6^b	1.34
Digestibility
Dry matter, %	81.5^a	81.3^a	78.7^b	78.5^b	80.9^a	0.63
	% DM basis
Organic matter	84.1^a	83.7^a	81.1^b	81.3^b	83.8^a	0.58
Acid hydrolyzed fat	92.6^b	92.6^b	92.3^b	91.8^b	94.2^a	0.37
Crude protein	81.0^a	80.1^ab	77.4^b	77.6^b	82.1^a	1.14
Total dietary fibre	36.0^a	33.8^ab	28.3^ab	28.5^ab	27.1^b	2.11
Gross energy	85.2^a	84.9^a	82.7^b	82.6^b	85.6^a	0.56

Abbreviations: CONd: 25% chicken meal diet; 5% CLHd: 5% chicken liver and heart hydrolysate plus 20% chicken meal diet; CLHd: 25% chicken liver and heart hydrolysate diet; 5% CHd: 5% chicken hydrolysate plus 20% chicken meal diet; CHd: 25% chicken hydrolysate diet.

^a,bMeans in the same row with different superscript letters are different (P < 0.05).