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Table 1 Ingredients and chemical composition of dietary treatments

From: Effects of dietary supplementation of leaves and whole plant of Andrographis paniculata on rumen fermentation, fatty acid composition and microbiota in goats

 

Dietary treatments

Ingredient (%)

Control

APL

APW

Oil palm frond

40.00

40.00

40.00

Rice husk

10.00

10.00

10.00

Napier grass

10.00

10.00

10.00

Concentrate

40.00

40.00

40.00

 APL

0.00

1.50

0.00

 APW

0.00

0.00

1.50

Chemical composition (% DM)

 Dry matter

89.86

89.88

89.89

 Crude protein

16.79

16.79

16.79

 Ether extract

5.89

5.80

5.80

 Ash

5.04

5.15

5.16

 Acid detergent fibre

30.10

30.94

30.98

 Neutral detergent fibre

48.58

48.64

48.56

 Calcium

1.41

1.41

1.41

 Phosphorus

1.03

1.03

1.03

 Metabolizable energy (MJ/kg DMa)

10.92

10.90

10.90

  1. Control basal diet, APL basal diet +1.5% (w/w) Andrographis paniculata leaf powder, APW basal diet +1.5% (w/w) whole plant of Andrographis paniculata powder
  2. acalculated