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. 2016 Mar 10;30(1):57–63. doi: 10.5713/ajas.15.0876

Table 3.

Concentration of digestible energy and metabolizable energy, and apparent total tract digestibility of energy in diets (as-fed basis)1)

Item Feed form SEM Enzymes SEM p values



Meal Pellet Control Xylanase Phytase Combination Feed form Enzyme Feed form×enzyme
Feed intake (kg/d) 1.41 1.43 0.93 1.47 1.43 1.37 1.41 0.35 0.83 0.98 0.46
GE intake (MJ/d) 22.05 22.99 0.69 23.26 22.59 21.88 22.35 0.55 0.4 0.98 0.46
GE in feces (MJ/d) 2.46 2.39 0.80 2.54 2.33 2.34 2.47 0.89 0.69 0.58 0.81
GE in urine (MJ/d) 0.73 0.74 0.93 0.79 0.75 0.62 0.76 0.60 0.99 0.20 0.49
Digestible energy (MJ/kg) 13.88 14.36 0.07 14.10 14.19 14.11 14.08 0.06 <0.01 0.62 0.74
Metabolic energy (MJ/kg) 13.35 13.81 0.07 13.53 13.67 13.58 13.54 0.17 <0.01 0.22 0.98
ATTD of GE (%) 88.94 89.56 0.02 88.86 89.29 89.33 89.51 0.41 0.04 0.61 0.84

DE, Digestible energy; ME, Metabolizable energy; SEM, stands for standard error mean; ATTD, apparent total tract digestibility.

1)

Each treatment has 6 replicants.