Table 1.

Duddingtonia flagrans oral chlamydospore dose (OCD) offered per day and chlamydospores recovered in faeces (CRF) per day in sheep used to determine the chlamydospore apparent digestibility (CAD).

Sheep	Dose (OCD)	CRF (mean ± SE)	CAD (%)*
1	1.95 × 107	1.36 × 106 ± 5.76 × 105	93.0
2	2.68 × 107	3.31 × 106 ± 3.42 × 105	87.6
3	3.13 × 107	3.79 × 106 ± 3.91 × 105	87.9
4	4.31 × 107	4.76 × 106 ± 7.14 × 105	89.0
5	6.13 × 107	7.57 × 106 ± 11.5 × 105	87.6
6	6.50 × 107	6.79 × 106 ± 9.86 × 105	89.6
7	9.50 × 107	10.2 × 106 ± 20.2 × 105	89.2
8	12.0 × 107	9.66 × 106 ± 15.0 × 105	91.9
9	17.8 × 107	15.8 × 106 ± 43.3 × 105	91.1
Mean			89.7

*Chlamydospore apparent digestibility (CAD) = (OCD-CFR)/DC*100.