Table 5.

Effects of Enogen Feed Corn and processing on total tract digestibility and ruminal characteristics (Exp. 2)

Item	Corn grain source1				SEM3	P-value
	CON		EFC
	Corn processing2
	DR	WS	DR	WS		Process	Source	Process × source
No. of observations	7	7	6	7
Dry matter intake, kg/d	8.21	7.68	7.75	8.14	0.43	0.80	0.99	0.11
Ruminal
pH4	5.81	5.93	5.84	5.87	0.06	0.15	0.82	0.37
Ammonia, mM4	2.79	2.38	3.63	2.80	0.73	0.32	0.30	0.73
Total VFA, mM4	109.4	107.0	102.1	109.5	5.27	0.45	0.45	0.14
Acetate, molar %4	62.0	61.4	60.8	60.3	1.33	0.68	0.34	0.95
Propionate, molar %4	24.5	25.1	24.4	26.4	1.38	0.33	0.65	0.60
Butyrate, molar %4	9.7	9.5	10.6	9.5	0.60	0.24	0.41	0.36
Isobutyrate, molar %4	1.22	1.38	1.40	1.30	0.07	0.62	0.47	0.07
Valerate, molar %4	1.42	1.45	1.69	1.44	0.09	0.18	0.10	0.09
Isovalerate, molar %4	1.11	1.13	1.17	1.06	0.12	0.65	0.99	0.52
Liquid passage rate, %/h	9.5	8.8	7.4	8.4	0.67	0.77	0.01	0.09
Digestibility, %
Dry matter	58.4	56.2	62.0	63.2	2.53	0.83	0.04	0.50
Organic matter	61.5	59.3	64.8	66.0	2.45	0.82	0.04	0.46
Neutral detergent fiber	51.1	47.0	51.5	53.5	4.18	0.79	0.41	0.46
Acid detergent fiber	48.5	42.0	50.0	54.5	5.20	0.85	0.17	0.28
Starch	84.7	85.1	86.4	90.4	2.90	0.37	0.16	0.47

CON, control (yellow # corn corn); EFC, Enogen Feed Corn.

DR, dry rolled; WS, whole shelled.

Largest value among treatments reported.

Average of values collected at 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 18, and 24 h after feeding on day 15 of each period.