Table 9.

Effect of delayed corn silage harvest and intake restriction on digestibility in lambs (experiment 3)

Item	Treatmentsa						SEM
	Ad libitum			Limited				P value
	37% DM	43% DM		37% DM	43% DM			Int.b	Intakec	DMd
DM
Intake, kg/d	2.14	1.99		1.16	1.15		0.08	0.28	<0.01	0.23
Digestibility, %	70.8	71.5		71.9	71.1		1.3	0.56	0.76	0.97
OM
Intake, kg/d	2.01	1.89		1.09	1.09		0.08	0.33	<0.01	0.39
Digestibility, %	72.6	73.3		73.7	73.1		1.3	0.56	0.67	0.99
NDF
Intake, kg/d	1.07	0.77		0.58	0.45		0.03	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01
Digestibility, %	63.4	53.3		65.4	53.5		0.02	0.67	0.60	<0.01

^aTreatments: Diets contained 92.14% of either 37% or 43% DM corn silage and fed at ad libitum or restricted at 1.5% of BW.

^bSilage intake × silage DM interaction.

^cFixed effect of silage intake.

^dFixed effect of silage DM.