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Table 3.

Body weight gain, average daily gain, water intake, dry matter intake, and gain to feed ratio of rams fed spent coffee ground or fermented spent coffee ground

Item	Treatment (% DM)				SEM	p-value¹⁾

	Control	SCG	FSCG

	0	10	10	20		Treatment	Fermentation	Linear	Quadratic
Initial BW (kg)	56.3	57.0	56.6	57.2	3.20	0.921	0.798	0.586	0.897
Finial BW (kg)	62.0	60.1	61.3	60.0	2.68	0.203	0.242	0.203	0.803
BWG (kg/d)	5.70	3.11	4.72	2.80	0.89	0.064	0.151	0.007	0.958
ADG (kg/d)	0.41	0.22	0.34	0.20	0.06	0.058	0.142	0.016	0.529
Water intake (L/d)	8.8^b	10.3^ab	10.1^ab	12.6^a	1.69	0.024	0.833	0.017	0.425
Urine excretion (L/d)	4.3^b	6.1^ab	5.9^ab	9.3^a	1.50	0.032	0.864	0.025	0.480
DMI (kg/d)	2.06	2.02	2.00	1.89	0.18	0.369	0.820	0.214	0.871
Gain to feed ratio	0.24	0.12	0.19	0.13	0.05	0.190	0.334	0.089	0.961

DM, dry matter; SCG, spent coffee ground; FSCG, fermented spent coffee ground; SEM, standard error of the mean; BW, body weight; BWG, body weight gain; ADG, average daily gain; DMI, dry matter intake.

¹⁾

Treatment, multiple comparison test among all treatments; Fermentation, SCG 10% vs FSCG 10%; linear, linear contrast effect among 0%, 10%, and 20% of FSCG; quadratic, quadratic contrast effect among 0%, 10%, and 20% of FSCG.

^ab

Means within each row with different superscripts were significantly different from each other (p<0.05).