Growth performance, nutrient digestibility, fecal microbial diversity and volatile fatty acid, and blood biochemical indices of suckling donkeys fed diets supplemented with multienzymes

Table 4 Growth performance of experimental diet-fed donkeys

Items		Control group	Multienzymes group	SEM	P value
Body weight (kg)	0 days	46.33	46.90	1.50	0.8622
	120 days	101.67	105.60	2.58	0.4779
	Total weight gain	55.33	58.70	1.66	0.3380
Body height (cm)	0 days	90.53	87.66	1.10	0.2079
	120 days	107.87	108.86	0.83	0.5521
	Total height gain	17.33	21.20	1.01	0.0544
Body length (cm)	0 days	73.05	72.88	1.73	0.9639
	120 days	97.18	98.24	0.83	0.5566
	Total length gain	24.13	25.36	1.97	0.7739
Chest (cm)	0 days	81.00	79.62	1.43	0.6554
	120 days	102.88	103.18	1.13	0.9035
	Total chest gain	21.88	23.56	1.33	0.6031
Shank circumference (cm)	0 days	11.25	11.22	0.17	0.9364
	120 days	13.47	13.90	0.19	0.2803
	Total shank circumference gain	2.22	2.68	0.19	0.2557

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