Table 5.

Dry matter and nutrient digestibility of Nellore bulls finished on tropical pasture and fed a Bacillus-based probiotic

Days	Treatments*		SEM1	P – value2
	Control	Probiotic		Treatment
Dry matter digestibility, %
0–28	47.01	46.93	3.394	0.96
29–56	55.59	56.53	4.217	0.52
57–84	31.90	35.03	4.787	0.17
85–112	36.70	39.57	1.985	0.19
Overall mean	42.54	44.46	2.795	0.19
Crude protein digestibility, %
0–28	50.06	49.80	2.320	0.92
29–56	47.15	46.01	4.081	0.68
57–84	33.40	35.48	3.470	0.50
85–112	30.82	33.84	4.045	0.20
Overall mean	40.45	41.68	1.295	0.39
NDF digestibility, %
0–28	44.23	44.50	4.801	0.92
29–56	56.54	58.03	3.582	0.40
57–84	34.35	36.45	3.746	0.39
85–112	39.47	39.76	2.746	0.90
Overall mean	44.61	44.59	2.651	0.99

*CON; energy-protein supplement without any additive (n = 14) - Probiotic; energy-protein supplement containing 2 g of probiotic/animal per day (n = 14). The probiotic was composed of Bacillus licheniformis and Bacillus subtilis (6.4 × 10⁹ CFU/g). ¹Standard error of mean;² P-value; The significance level was set at P ≤ 0.05, and 0.05 < P ≤ 0.10 was considered a tendency