Table 4.
Correlation coefficients between chemical components and in vitro ileal disappearance (IVID) of crude protein (CP), in vitro ileal digestible CP (IVID CP), in vitro total tract disappearance of dry matter (DM), in vitro digestible energy (IVDE), and adjusted metabolizable energy (ME) of meat meal and meat and bone meal (n = 7).
| Item | Correlation coefficient (r) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE | CP | IVID of CP | IVID CP | GE | IVTTD of DM | IVDE | Adjusted ME | |
| Ash | –0.68 | –0.99∗∗∗ | 0.47 | –0.97∗∗∗ | –1.00∗∗∗ | 0.60 | –0.97∗∗∗ | –0.97∗∗∗ |
| EE | 0.65 | 0.00 | 0.59 | 0.65 | –0.71 | 0.55 | 0.54 | |
| CP | 0.51 | 0.98∗∗∗ | 1.00∗∗∗ | –0.56 | 0.98∗∗∗ | 0.98∗∗∗ | ||
| IVID of CP | 0.66 | 0.48 | 0.42 | 0.65 | 0.66 | |||
| IVID CP | 0.97∗∗∗ | –0.40 | 1.00∗∗∗ | 0.99∗∗∗ | ||||
| GE | –0.59 | 0.98∗∗∗ | 0.97∗∗∗ | |||||
| IVTTD of DM | –0.41 | –0.39 | ||||||
| IVDE | 1.00∗∗∗ | |||||||
EE = ether extract; GE = gross energy.
∗∗∗P < 0.001.