Table 5.

Ingestive behavior of the Santa Inês crossbred lambs fed diets with crude glycerin

Item	Crude glycerin (% DM)				SEM	P value*
	0	7	14	21		Linear	Quadratic
Daily spent time (%)
Rumination	33.7	35.9	34.0	29.8	1.89	0.128	0.116
Feeding	14.4	16.4	17.5	13.5	1.64	0.831	0.080
Idling	51.8	47.6	48.5	56.7	2.93	0.271	0.052
Number of events/day
Rumination	23.3	24.2	23.1	20.6	1.57	0.209	0.315
Feeding	15.4	17.1	16.7	14.4	1.63	0.656	0.235
Idling	36.1	38.3	36.9	32.2	2.19	0.185	0.121
Average duration of events (min)
Rumination	21.1	22.2	22.5	21.5	1.615	0.825	0.525
Feeding	13.2	14.9	16.0	13.5	1.318	0.735	0.120
Idling	22.6	18.8	20.6	27.3	2.923	0.243	0.086
Efficiency (g/h)
Feeding DM	548	366	253	246	61.4	0.005	0.261
Feeding NDF	225	146	96.3	98.2	25.4	0.004	0.215
Rumination DM	181	145.4	131	98.9	13.2	<0.001	0.908
Rumination NDF	73.4	57.5	50.1	38.9	5.20	<0.001	0.688
Chewing
g DM/bolus	2.49	2.20	1.72	1.41	0.18	<0.001	0.965
Chew/bolus	579.73	586.12	611.43	507.86	37.25	0.269	0.158
Chew/d	8.520	9.133	7.773	7.779	7.547	0.296	0.693

*Significant at P ≤ 0.05.