Effect of Feeding Different Mixtures of Short Milled Wheat and Sesame Seed Cake on Intake, Digestibility, and Live Bodyweight Changes for Abergelle Sheep in Tigray

Table 3: Nutrient digestibility in sheep fed grass hay and supplemented with mixed levels of short milled wheat and sesame seed cake combination.

Diets		Digestibility of Nutrients (%)
Diets	DM	OM	CP	NDF	ADF	SEM	SL
Diet 1	58.71^b	60.42^b	61.55^b	58.04	54.51	3.75	*
Diet 2	73.31^a	75.03^a	74.41^a	71.23	69.41	3.49	*
Diet 3	70.81^a	72.76^a	75.42^a	68.05	64.73	3.14	**
Diet 4	74.47^a	76.38^a	81.32^a	70.58	68.61	4.43	Ns
SEM	3.69	3.39	3.08	4.42	4.44	4.46	Ns

^abcMeans with different superscripts in column are significantly different; *=P<0.05,**=P<0.01 and***=P<0.001; ns=non-significant; SEM=standard error of mean; DM=dry matter; OM= organic matter; CP= crude protein; NDF= neutral detergent fiber; ADF=acid detergent fiber; Diet1= grass hay adlib tum (control); Diet2= grass hay adlib tum + 45g sesame seed cake+75g short milled wheat; Diet3= grass hay adlib tum +95g sesame seed cake+145g short milled wheat, Diet4= grass hay adlib tum +140g sesame seed cake+ 220g short milled wheat.