Table 4.

Daily nutrient intake, diet consumed, digestibility coefficient, performance growth of the crossbred Santa Inês lambs fed diets with crude glycerin

Item	Crude glycerin (% DM)				SEM	P value*
	0	7	14	21		Linear	Quadratic
Nutrient intake (g/d)
DM	1,112	1,194	999	863	42.9	<0.001	0.018
CP	188	204	173	140	7.91	<0.001	0.004
Ether extract	24.8	48.1	59.3	68.5	1.97	<0.001	<0.001
NDF	457	485	388	341	18.3	<0.001	0.058
Nonfiber carbohydrates	373	369	296	238	13.2	<0.001	0.057
Total digestible nutrients	868	932	780	674	33.5	<0.001	0.017
Effectively consumed diet composition (g/d)
CP	169	171	173	163	0.23	0.267	0.085
Ether extract	24.0	40.3	59.4	79.5	0.03	<0.001	0.002
NDF	410	407	388	395	0.45	0.011	0.322
Nonfiber carbohydrates	336	308	296	276	0.30	<0.001	0.258
Digestibility coefficient (%)
DM	79.2	77.5	72.4	60.5	3.26	0.003	0.202
CP	79.2	76.5	73.2	60.7	3.47	0.006	0.263
Ether extract	86.2	92.5	93.1	93.3	1.30	0.014	0.084
NDF	71.4	68.8	61.8	35.8	6.28	0.006	0.153
Nonfiber carbohydrates	93.5	91.8	87.7	85.6	0.82	<0.001	0.839
Total digestible nutrients	78.1	78.1	74.8	65.1	3.01	0.019	0.203
Performance growth
Initial BW (kg)	23.0	24.0	23.6	24.3	—	—	—
Final BW (kg)	37.9	40.4	36.0	32.3	1.27	<0.001	0.015
ADG (g/d)	191	200	158	103	8.85	<0.001	<0.001
G:F (g/g)	0.17	0.17	0.16	0.12	0.01	<0.001	0.017

*Significant at P ≤ 0.05.