Table 5.

Excretion of dung, urine and nitrogen (N) per day (d).

Statistical Significancy (p-Values)
Diet Forage type	A Haylage	B Hay	C Hay	D Hay	E Hay	F Hay	Diet	A	B	C	D	E
Supplemental feed	-	-	Oats	Oats + Soya	Oats + Rapeseed	Oats + Linseed	SEM	vs. B, C–F	vs. C–F	vs. D–F	vs. E, F	vs. F
Dung (fresh) kg	19.3	18.7	14.4	14.1	13.9	14.0	0.88	<0.001	<0.001	0.512	0.744	0.831
Dung DM kg	3.6	3.6	3.2	3.1	3.2	3.3	0.06	<0.001	<0.001	0.738	0.012	0.613
Urine L	14.0	14.3	10.9	13.0	12.0	11.8	0.86	0.026	0.003	0.050	0.146	0.827
N in dung g	52	51	43	42	47	48	2.27	0.002	0.001	0.087	0.005	0.603
N in urine g (unacidified)	123	85	117	131	139	124	7.09	0.644	<0.001	0.061	0.950	0.106
Urine N g (acidified)	104	64	81	111	111	105	5.79	0.144	<0.001	0.001	0.678	0.464
N dung + urine g (unacidified)	175	136	160	173	186	172	7.96	0.239	<0.001	0.034	0.464	0.118
N dung + urine g (acidified)	156	115	124	153	158	153	5.41	0.016	<0.001	<0.001	0.644	0.427