Table 4.
Effects of ADY on nutrient digestibility of weaned beef calves (%)1.
| Items | Treatments |
SEM | P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CON | ADY | |||
| DM | 79.39 | 81.23 | 0.926 | 0.331 |
| OM | 69.93 | 72.24 | 0.962 | 0.235 |
| CP | 70.73 | 74.93 | 0.902 | 0.017 |
| EE | 82.14 | 80.97 | 0.953 | 0.551 |
| NDF | 62.19 | 67.01 | 0.787 | 0.001 |
| ADF | 61.43 | 64.03 | 0.741 | 0.078 |
ADY = active dry yeast; SEM = standard error of mean; DM = dry matter; OM = organic matter; CP = crude protein; EE = ether extract; NDF = neutral detergent fiber; ADF = acid detergent fiber.
1
CON, control with no ADY and fed basal ration; ADY, fed basal ration and 5 g/d ADY (Angel Yeast Co., Ltd., Yichang, Hubei, China) per calf.