Table 3.
Effects of eucalyptus oil (EUC) and anise oil (ANI) on nutrients intake and apparent digestibility in the total digestive tract of sheep
| Items | Treatment1 | SEM | P value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Control | EUC | ANI | |||
| Intake, g/d | |||||
| DM | 1,940 | 1,828 | 1,698 | 188.9 | 0.20 |
| OM | 1,794 | 1,690 | 1,570 | 174.7 | 0.20 |
| CP | 255 | 240 | 223 | 24.8 | 0.21 |
| NDF | 637 | 600 | 557 | 62.0 | 0.20 |
| ADF | 386 | 363 | 338 | 37.6 | 0.21 |
| Digestibility, % | |||||
| DM | 63.9 | 64.5 | 60.5 | 3.07 | 0.27 |
| OM | 66.5 | 67.1 | 63.3 | 2.90 | 0.32 |
| CP | 66.6 | 67.8 | 64.0 | 2.85 | 0.53 |
| NDF | 39.1 | 38.4 | 35.3 | 4.27 | 0.81 |
| ADF | 34.5 | 34.3 | 29.4 | 4.16 | 0.67 |
1Three treatments: control (fed a control diet, consisted of corn concentrate, soybean meal, and Chinese wildrye hay with concentrate:forage = 60:40), EUC treatment (control diet supplemented with 0.5 g/d/head EUC), ANI treatment (control diet supplemented with 0.5 g/d/head ANI).