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Table 4 Ruminal dry matter degradation kinetics of wheat straw mixed with dry brewery spent yeast

From: Effect of sun dry brewer spent yeast on chemical composition, in vitro digestibility, and ruminal degradation kinetics of wheat straw

Inclusion levels

a

b

c

PD

ED

DBSY0

7.65f

26.29f

0.024bc

33.94f

23.23f

DBSY10

12.16e

34.10b

0.016d

46.26e

29.18e

DBSY20

17.81d

33.01c

0.016d

50.82d

33.85d

DBSY30

23.96c

31.81e

0.021c

55.77c

39.89c

DBSY40

29.83b

32.79d

0.025b

62.62b

48.18b

DBSY50

36.04a

35.00a

0.032a

71.04a

53.01a

SEM

0.06

1.24

0.0001

2.45

3.21

P -value

0.05

0.001

0.01

0.05

0.001

  1. Mean values in the rows without common superscripts are different at (p < 0.05)
  2. DBSY0, DBSY10, DBSY20, DBSY30, DBSY40 and DBSY50 mixture ratios of DBSY:WS at 0:100, 10:90, 20:80, 30:70, 40:60 and 50:50 respectively, on dry matter basis
  3. aSoluble fraction
  4. binsoluble but slowly degradable fraction
  5. cDegradation rate constant of the b fraction
  6. PD Potential degradability, ED Effective degradability (at 0.02), SEM Standard error of the mean