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Table 7.

Ruminal neutral detergent fiber degradation of seven Chinese herbs (%)

NDF/DM	E.s.	G.u.	C.k.	A.m.	T.v.	A.me.	L.b.	Alfalfa
a¹	0.06 ± 0.01^D	−1.01 ± 0.14^Ec	−1.55 ± 0.40 ^c	1.62 ± 0.44^b	3.43 ± 0.45^a	3.50 ± 2.27 ^Ba	1.98 ± 0.20^Cb	5.45 ± 0.33^A
b¹	61.53 ± 2.85^Ca	61.73 ± 1.94^a	55.86 ± 1.48^D	84.07 ± 0.71^A	47.78 ± 0.64^Eb	46.95 ± 1.35^b	60.63 ± 0.55^a	74.05 ± 0.65^B
c¹	0.02 ± 0.00 ^F	0.03 ± 0.00^a	0.03 ± 0.00^Ea	0.10 ± 0.00^B	0.06 ± 0.01^C	0.03 ± 0.00^a	0.06 ± 0.00^D	0.13 ± 0.00^A
p¹	23.89 ± 0.29 ^G	27.41 ± 0.37^Ea	26.58 ± 0.20^Eb	66.29 ± 0.30^A	35.40 ± 0.20^D	26.21 ± 0.53^Fb	40.99 ± 0.43 ^C	64.97 ± 0.78^B

E.s. = Ephedra sinica, G.u. = Glycyrrhiza uralensis, C.k. = Caragana korshinskii, A.m. = Allium mongolicum, T.v. = Thymus vulgaris, A.me. = Astragalus membranaceus, L.b. = Lespedeza bicolor, DM = dry matter, NDF = neutral detergent fiber. The same superscript lowercase letters indicate P > 0.05; the different superscript lowercase letters indicate 0.01 < P < 0.05; the different superscript uppercase letters indicate P < 0.01. ¹a is the rapid degrading components, b is the slow degrading components, c is the degradation rate of the slow degrading components, and p is the effective degradation rate.