Table 2.

Effect of the supplementation of dietary exogenous non-starch polysaccharidases on growth performance and feed efficiency of fattening sheep.

Items	Treatment 1				SEM	p-value 2
	CON	T1	T2	T3		Treat	Linear	Quadratic
Initial BW, kg	35.30	34.82	35.34	36.10	0.66	0.938	0.661	0.819
Final BW, kg	42.89	43.01	43.92	42.87	0.71	0.951	0.893	0.916
Average daily gain, g/d	180.69ab	194.97a	204.23a	158.46b	6.27	0.048	0.313	0.029
DM intake, kg/d	0.83	0.90	0.94	0.84	0.035	0.717	0.836	0.517
Feed conversion rate	4.62b	4.61b	4.52b	5.46a	0.14	0.021	0.043	0.014

¹Different supplementary levels (CON, control group; T1, 0.1% NSPases/kg DMI; T2, 0.3% NSPases/kg DMI; T3, 0.5% NSPases/kg DMI).

²Treat, Linear and Quadratic represent treat, linear, and quadratic effects, respectively of NSPase addition.

^a,bValues within a row with different superscripts differ significantly at p < 0.05.