Table 3.
Items (%) | TRT11) | TRT21) | TRT31) | TRT41) | TRT51) | TRT61) | TRT71) | TRT81) | SEM | p-value2) | ||||||
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High nutrition density | Low nutrition density | Probiotics | Feed type | Nutrition density | Probiotics × feed type | Feed type × nutrition density | Probiotics × nutrition density | Interaction | ||||||||
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Dry matter | 83.31 | 84.21 | 84.38 | 84.77 | 84.21 | 84.25 | 83.50 | 83.97 | 0.53 | 0.245 | 0.315 | 0.341 | 0.637 | 0.276 | 0.168 | 0.750 |
Nitrogen | 82.64 | 83.23 | 83.81 | 82.58 | 83.03 | 83.65 | 83.64 | 83.69 | 0.91 | 0.156 | 0.267 | 0.543 | 0.104 | 0.739 | 0.624 | 0.448 |
Energy | 83.86 | 84.35 | 84.75 | 85.36 | 84.68 | 83.79 | 85.31 | 85.22 | 0.77 | 0.265 | 0.543 | 0.438 | 0.681 | 0.963 | 0.624 | 0.541 |
10 d | ||||||||||||||||
Dry matter | 84.50 | 84.93 | 83.51 | 85.06 | 84.44 | 83.79 | 85.04 | 83.89 | 0.95 | 0.854 | 0.453 | 0.631 | 0.360 | 0.357 | 0.400 | 0.509 |
Nitrogen | 83.57 | 82.65 | 83.62 | 84.31 | 83.65 | 84.31 | 82.86 | 83.06 | 0.59 | 0.804 | 0.654 | 0.265 | 0.664 | 0.631 | 0.817 | 0.168 |
Energy | 83.83 | 84.35 | 84.75 | 85.36 | 84.32 | 85.28 | 83.31 | 85.16 | 0.80 | 0.647 | 0.169 | 0.735 | 0.261 | 0.736 | 0.547 | 0.440 |
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Dry matter | 84.34 | 85.94 | 85.08 | 86.89 | 84.32 | 84.78 | 85.43 | 84.66 | 0.69 | 0.122 | 0.174 | 0.116 | 0.725 | 0.599 | 0.060 | 0.458 |
Nitrogen | 82.61 | 84.85 | 83.83 | 85.05 | 82.97 | 83.41 | 83.60 | 83.41 | 0.78 | 0.187 | 0.361 | 0.099 | 0.724 | 0.458 | 0.154 | 0.863 |
Energy | 83.97 | 84.80 | 84.45 | 86.01 | 82.84 | 84.10 | 84.42 | 83.83 | 0.80 | 0.078 | 0.189 | 0.180 | 0.863 | 0.620 | 0.448 | 0.257 |
SEM, pooled Standard error of means; NC, negative control.
TRT1, high nutrition density feed × dry type × none; TRT2, high nutrition density feed × dry type × probiotics; TRT3, high nutrition density feed × wet type × none; TRT4, high nutrition density feed × wet type × probiotics; TRT5, low nutrition density feed × dry type × none; TRT6, low nutrition density feed × dry type × probiotics; TRT7, low nutrition density feed × wet type × none; TRT8, low nutrition density feed × wet type × probiotics.
p<0.05 was considered statistically significant, whereas p<0.10 was considered a tendency.