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. 2020 May 9;98(5):skaa107. doi: 10.1093/jas/skaa107

Table 5.

Effects of source and level of NDF from roughage on feed intake and ingestive behavior

Experimental diets1
Item 10CS 20CS SCB SC SH LOCH SEM
DMI, kg/d 7.93bc 9.20a 6.97c 8.60ab 8.83ab 9.52a 0.32
DMI, % of BW 1.82bc 2.10a 1.60c 1.94ab 2.00ab 2.20a 0.10
Eating, min/d 196.7 223.3 194.2 176.6 188.7 188.3 16.5
Eating, min/kg of DM 25.0 24.5 30.0 20.4 21.4 19.8 2.71
Eating, min/kg of aNDF 141.0a 95.2ab 112.1ab 79.7b 81.2b 76.6b 12.5
Ruminating, min/d 230.8c 407.5ab 453.3a 457.5a 240.0c 371.0b 20.0
Ruminating, min/kg of DM 29.2d 44.5bc 67.3a 53.4b 26.6d 39.1cd 3.00
Ruminating, min/kg of aNDF 164.7bc 173.0bc 273.4a 209.0b 102.0d 151.6cd 6.91
Chewing, min/d 427.5c 631.0ab 648.0a 634.1a 428.0c 576.0b 18.7
Chewing, min/kg of DM 54.3cd 69.0bc 96.6a 73.8b 48.4d 60.6bcd 4.63
Chewing, min/kg of aNDF 305.8b 268.0b 393.8a 288.4b 184.0c 235.0bc 19.72
Duration of first meal, min 39.2 35.0 34.4 30.0 39.7 36.6 5.1
Number of meals/d 11.8 12.0 10.0 11.3 10.1 11.8 1.2
Duration of each meal, min 19.4 19.1 18.7 15.8 18.7 16.1 1.8
Drinking water, min/d 24.2 20.3 21.1 24.1 22.2 25.0 4.1
Resting standing, min/d 329.1 253.3 234.0 222.0 254.5 249.1 41.0
Resting lying, min/d 664.5ab 500.0b 566.2ab 567.3ab 733.0a 594.1ab 46.4

110CS, 10% of aNDF from corn silage; 20CS, 20% of aNDF from corn silage; SCB, 10CS + 10% of aNDF from sugarcane bagasse; SC, 10CS + 10% of aNDF from sugarcane; SH, 10CS + 10% of aNDF from soybean hulls; LOCH, 10CS + 10% of aNDF from low oil cottonseed hulls.

a-dMeans within a row with different superscripts differ (P < 0.05).