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. 2019 Oct 11;97(11):4668–4681. doi: 10.1093/jas/skz317

Table 2.

Ingredients and chemical composition of the experimental diets tested in vitro

WDGS Content, %/ Ingredient, % of diet (as-fed) Diet1, %
– PS + PS
0 10 20 30 40 0 10 20 30 40
Steam-flaked corn 92.5 82.5 72.5 62.5 52.5 77.5 67.5 57.5 47.5 37.5
WDGS 0 10 20 30 40 0 10 20 30 40
Cotton-seed meal 7.0 7.0 7.0 7.0 7.0 7.0 7.0 7.0 7.0 7.0
Peanut skin (PS) 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 15.0 15.0 15.0 15.0 15.0
Urea 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5
Chemical composition2, % of DM
 DM, % 87.5 87.6 87.5 87.4 87.9 87.3 87.8 87.8 87.5 87.7
 CP, % 14.2d 18.4c 20.6b 21.5b 23.9a 16.3b 19.8b 21.4ab 23.9a 25.4a
 Soluble CP, % CP 23.0 22.5 19.5 21.0 20.5 20.5a 20.0ab 18.0b 14.0b 16.0b
 ADF, % 7.6 6.4 7.1 8.5 10.7 6.0b 7.9b 7.3b 8.5ab 10.6a
 NDF, % 9.6c 14.1c 18.7b 15.9b 20.7a 12.6b 15.9b 14.9b 20.5ab 24.1a
 TDN, % 81.9 81.8 77.9 79.0 77.1 80.5 79.0 79.5 77.0 75.2
 CT3, % 0.07 0.08 0.08 0.08 0.08 1.04 1.04 1.05 1.05 1.05
 Ca, % 0.02c 0.03c 0.05c 0.22b 0.48a 0.06b 0.42a 0.42a 0.45a 0.46a
 P, % 0.35c 0.47c 0.48c 1.35b 2.43a 0.33b 2.18a 2.25a 2.20a 2.32a
 Mg, % 0.14b 0.18b 0.20b 0.24ab 0.35a 0.15b 0.29a 0.31a 0.32a 0.33a
 S, % 0.16c 0.23b 0.24b 0.26b 0.36a 0.17b 0.28b 0.31ab 0.34a 0.38a

1Diet without (– peanut skin [PS]) or with peanut skin (+ PS) coupled with varying concentrations (0%–40% of as-fed) of wet distiller’s grains plus solubles (WDGS).

2CP, crude protein; ADF, acid detergent fiber; NDF, neutral detergent fiber; CT, condensed tannins.

3CT was predicted from Table 1.

a-dMeans within a row with different letters differ at P < 0.05.