Table 1.
Chemical compositions of experimental feeds and treatment diets.
| Experimental diets | DM % | % DM |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OM | CP | NDF | ADF | ADL | TDN∗ | ||
| Grass hay | 91.28 | 84.32 | 7.39 | 61.38 | 41.15 | 9.25 | 51.46 |
| Wheat bran | 91.89 | 93.35 | 15.84 | 37.73 | 12.90 | 3.82 | 72.69 |
| Sorghum grain | 91.28 | 97.38 | 14.97 | 26.84 | 6.73 | 2.54 | 77.32 |
| Molasses | 74.50 | 91.00 | 3.80 | 0.20 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 82.38 |
| Cotton seed cake | 91.60 | 94.22 | 33.10 | 54.22 | 40.97 | 9.94 | 51.59 |
| Noug seed cake | 91.55 | 86.83 | 34.52 | 32.83 | 26.86 | 4.21 | 62.19 |
| Sesame seed cake | 90.73 | 89.28 | 41.45 | 21.11 | 8.73 | 2.19 | 75.82 |
| Concentrate mixture | |||||||
| T 1 | 91.44 | 92.66 | 20.25 | 33.93 | 17.85 | 4.67 | 68.97 |
| T 2 | 90.89 | 92.50 | 20.66 | 32.43 | 15.59 | 5.79 | 70.66 |
| T 3 | 90.52 | 90.89 | 20.84 | 28.35 | 13.45 | 2.84 | 76.03 |
ADF = acid detergent fiber; ADL = acid detergent lignin; CP = crude protein; DM = dry matter; NDF = neutral detergent fiber; TDN = Total digestible nutrient, ∗TDN = 82.38-(ADF∗0.7515) (NRC, 2001). T1 = Ad libitum grass hay +48% wheat bran (wb) + 15% molasses +35% cottonseed cake (csc) + 1% salt +1% limestone; T2 = Ad libitum grass hay +43% wb+ 20% sorghum grain +35% noug seed cake(nsc) + 1% salt +1% limestone; T3 = Ad libitum grass hay +47% wb + 16% molasses +35% sesame seed cake (ssc) + 1% salt +1% limestone.