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Table 3.

Effects of dietary supplementation with B. licheniformis and S. cerevisiae as alternatives to monensin on ruminal fermentation of fattening lambs.

Items	Treatments					SEM	P-value
Items	NC	PC	BL	SC	BS	SEM	P-value
pH	6.71	6.72	6.79	6.76	6.75	0.02	0.763
NH3-N (mg/dL)	27.01^a	23.01^b	22.73^b	22.07^b	21.59^b	0.54	0.007
MCP (mg/dL)	41.13^b	44.89^ab	51.41^a	49.05^ab	53.97^a	1.49	0.043
Total VFA (mol/dl)	44.35	47.87	46.70	48.74	48.89	0.67	0.186
Acetate (%)	67.64^a	62.30^b	61.75^b	61.03^b	61.11^b	0.44	<0.0001
Propionate (%)	16.36^b	20.07^a	20.47^a	20.42^a	21.00^a	0.27	<0.0001
Butyrate (%)	6.84^c	8.22^b	7.98^b	9.06^a	8.59^ab	0.15	<0.0001
A:P	4.16^a	3.11^b	3.02^b	3.01^b	2.91^b	0.08	<0.0001

^a,bValues in the same row with different superscripts differ significantly (P < 0.05).