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. 2009 Mar 7;6:11. doi: 10.1186/1743-7075-6-11

Table 3.

Effect of experimental diets on final bodyweight, food intake, faecal output, pH, caecal weight and caecal content weight¹.

	Control	Cellulose	HYLON VII	Hi-maize 1043	Hi-maize 240	Hi-maize 260	NOVELOSE 330
Final bodyweight	369 ± 4	353 ± 8	345 ± 10	345 ± 11	341 ± 9	366 ± 8	359 ± 4
Food intake (g/d)	17.9 ± 0.8^bc	18.0 ± 0.5^bc	15.5 ± 0.7^a	15.8 ± 0.7^ab	15.4 ± 0.7^a	15.6 ± 0.5^ab	19.0 ± 0.4^c
Faecal Output (g/d)	0.5 ± 0.1^a	1.7 ± 0.1^b	1.7 ± 0.2^b	1.9 ± 0.2^b	1.7 ± 0.2^b	2.2 ± 0.2^b	3.2 ± 0.3^c
Faecal pH	7.4 ± 0.05^d	7.1 ± 0.03^c	5.7 ± 0.03^ab	5.8 ± 0.05^b	5.7 ± 0.04^ab	5.8 ± 0.07^b	5.5 ± 0.03^a
Caecal pH	7.5 ± 0.06^c	7.2 ± 0.05^b	5.6 ± 0.03^a	5.6 ± 0.02^a	5.7 ± 0.02^a	5.7 ± 0.01^a	5.5 ± 0.03^a
Caecum weight (g)	0.60 ± 0.03^ab	0.54 ± 0.02^a	0.66 ± 0.03^b	0.62 ± 0.04^ab	0.66 ± 0.03^ab	0.71 ± 0.04^b	0.95 ± 0.04^c
Caecal contents (g)	1.3 ± 0.05^a	1.58 ± 0.08^ab	1.50 ± 0.11^ab	1.24 ± 0.05^a	1.97 ± 0.06^b	1.76 ± 0.09^b	2.43 ± 0.19^c

¹Means ± SEM, n = 12. Means with superscripts without a common letter differ, P < 0.05.