Table 3.
Nutrient digestibility of annual ryegrass, canola, rapeseed, and turnip fed with orchardgrass during continuous culture fermentation
| Item | Diet* | SEM | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARG | CAN | RAP | TUR | ||
| Apparent digestibility | |||||
| DM, % | 44.5 | 44.7 | 45.3 | 46.0 | 2.77 |
| OM, % | 61.6 | 62.5 | 63.6 | 65.0 | 2.84 |
| NDF, % | 38.1 | 52.8 | 40.9 | 44.5 | 5.57 |
| ADF, % | 52.1a | 64.0b | 48.8a | 53.9a | 3.15 |
| True digestibility | |||||
| DM, % | 70.0 | 66.4 | 69.5 | 62.4 | 2.86 |
| OM, % | 89.7 | 86.4 | 90.1 | 82.6 | 3.13 |
*ARG = 50% orchardgrass + 50% annual ryegrass; CAN = 50% orchardgrass + 50% canola; RAP = 50% orchardgrass + 50% rapeseed; TUR = 50% orchardgrass + 50% turnip.
a–bWithin a row, means without a common superscript differ (P ≤ 0.05).