Table 3.

In sacco dry matter degradability parameters for hand-plucked grazed forage samples of sheep, goats, cattle and camels co-grazing range with mixed species of herbaceous and browse plants.

	Treatments
Item	Sheep	Goat	Cattle	Camel	SEM
Readily soluble fraction (A,%)	6.1c	9.6b	5.1c	13.1a	0.80
B (%)	55.8b	67.1a	50.9b	68.2a	1.50
c (% h−1)	0.031	0.028	0.024	0.038	0.0029
Effective degradability (ED,%)	33.7c	41.3b	27.7c	50.8a	1.93
Potential degradability (PD,%)	61.9b	76.7a	56.0c	81.3a	1.29

^a,-cMeans within a raw without a common superscript differ (P < 0.05); B= Slowly but potentially degradable fraction; c = Rate of degradation of B fraction; SEM = Standard error of the mean.