Table 2.
Total tract digestibility of experimental diets
| Digestibility (% of intake) | Treatments 1 |
SEM 2 | P-value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Control | LG | MG | HG | |||
| Dry matter | 64.02 | 65.38 | 65.19 | 68.46 | 1.08 | 0.38 |
| Organic matter | 67.23 | 67.71 | 68.22 | 70.31 | 1.59 | 0.41 |
| Crud protein | 79.44 | 78.08 | 78.75 | 77.25 | 2.45 | 0.53 |
| Natural detergent fiber | 49.66 | 52.64 | 54.20 | 54.32 | 1.73 | 0.13 |
1
Control group: Cows fed control diet; LG: Low Gln, cows fed basal diet supplemented with 150 g; MG: Medium Gln, cows fed basal diet supplemented with 250 g; HG: High Gln, cows fed basal diet supplemented with 350 g Gln protected with formaldehyde/cow per day.
2
SEM: Stand error of means