Feeding a high-grain diet reduces the percentage of LPS clearance and enhances immune gene expression in goat liver

Table 1 Chemical composition and nutrient levels of diets

Ingredient	Percentage (%) of ingredients (dry matter)
Ingredient	LG diet	HG diet
Chinese wildrye hay	48.00	32.00
Alfalfa hay	12.00	8.00
Corn	28.78	43.17
Soybean meal	8.45	12.68
limestone	0.77	1.25
Calcium phosphate dibasic	1.10	1.65
Salt	0.40	0.50
Premix ^a	0.50	0.75
Forage: Concentrate	6:4	4:6
Nutrient levels, % of dry matter
Dry mater, %	88.90	88.60
Net energy, MJ/kg	5.40	5.89
CP, %	12.24	13.45
NDF, %	36.55	27.69
ADF, %	24.04	17.54

^aPremix provided: 3000, 1250, and 40 IU kg⁻¹ of diet of vitamin A, D and E, and 6.25, 62.5, 62.5, 50, 0.25, 0.125, 0.125 mg kg⁻¹ of diet of Cu, Fe, Zn, Mn, I, Se, Co, respectively. CP: crude protein; NDF: neutral detergent fibre; ADF: acid detergent fibre.

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