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. 2013 Nov 9;4(1):42. doi: 10.1186/2049-1891-4-42

Table 3.

Analyzed and calculated chemical composition and digestibility of nutrients of the experimental diets (DK, VN and TH)

 
 Analyzed/Estimated ( in vivo )
 Calculated from feedstuff tables 1
 
  
  DK VN TH DK VN TH Deviation 2 RMSEP 3
Chemical composition, % DM
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
Dry matter, %
 90.1
 91.5
 90.0
 86
 89
 87
 3.2
 0.5
Ash
 5.0
 5.9
 5.7
 5.7
 6.2
 6.6
 -0.6
 0.2
Crude Protein (N × 6.25)
 17.5
 19.6
 23.8
 17.5
 19.3
 22.6
 0.5
 0.4
Crude fat
 3.1
 13.3
 5.6
 2.4
 12.5
 4.0
 1.0
 0.3
Starch and sugar
 56.2
 32.6
 48.2
 54.7
 35.8
 48.5
 -0.7
 1.4
Total dietary fibre
 18.3
 28.6
 16.7
 16.9
 27.5
 15.0
 1.4
 0.2
Crude fibre
 4.2
 9.8
 3.7
 4.1
 9.4
 3.4
 0.3
 0.1
Phosphorus
 0.57
 0.52
 0.77
 0.64
 0.55
 0.77
 -0.06
 0.02
Total digestibility, %
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
Dry Matter (DM)
 85
 73
 85
 82
 71
 82
 2.3
 0.4
Organic Matter (OM)
 86
 74
 86
 86
 75
 87
 -0.9
 0.4
Carbon
 85
 73
 84
 844
 72
 85
 0.1
 0.6
Protein 81 73 80 83 76 82 -2.6 0.3

DM Dry matter, DK Danish diet, VN Vietnamese diet, TH Thai diet.

1Bach Knudsen [19], Just et al. [25], NRC [26] Vils and Sloth [27].

2Deviations, systematic difference between the calculated using table values and the experimental estimated value.

3RMSEP, root mean square error of prediction.

4Carbon digestibility calculated by the equation: dcCarbon (%) = -12.15 +1.117 dcOM (%), using data from Jørgensen [28].