Table 1.

Temporal variation of enzyme activities in the sheep rumen.

Time	Forage	Enzyme activity (U/mL)
		CMCase1	Xylanase
Day 0	AH	0.245a	0.402a
Day 1	CS	0.309bc	0.680bc
Day 6		0.354c	0.825c
Day 14		0.378c	0.868c
Day 15	AH	0.318bc	0.708bc
Day 20		0.271ab	0.506b
Day 28		0.296b	0.539b
SEM		0.021	0.054
P-value		<0.01	<0.01

¹CMCase, Carboxymethyl cellulase. ^a–cMeans with different superscript letter differ (P < 0.05) among the sampling days.