Profiling of rumen fermentation, microbial population and digestibility in goats fed with dietary oils containing different fatty acids

Table 4 Ingredients and chemical composition of treatment diets

	Treatments
	CNT	OL	PO	SF
Ingredient (as fed)
Rice straw	30.8	25.8	25.8	25.8
Barley grain	35.0	35.0	35.0	35.0
Soybean meal	30.0	30.0	30.0	30.0
Molases	2.0	1.0	1.0	1.0
Vitamin mineral-mix	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5
Limestone	1.3	1.3	1.3	1.3
Sodium Sulphate	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4
Olive oil	–	6.0	–	–
Palm Oil	–	–	6.0	–
Sunflower oil	–	–	–	6.0
Chemical analysis (DM %)
DM	76.17	76.02	78.27	78.73
OM	93.60	93.34	94.61	94.96
CP	15.76	15.48	15.9	16.00
EE	1.86	4.56	4.70	4.74
NDF	63.53	58.76	58.54	51.27
ADF	17.04	18.26	20.66	21.41
Fatty acid (g/100 g total fatty acid DM)
C-16:0	8.09	11.72	44.50	4.92
C-18:0	2.70	1.40	3.73	6.28
C-18:1, n 9	27.88	73.20	41.45	28.47
C-18:2, n 6	55.76	12.9	9.62	59.36
C-18:3, n 3	5.57	0.80	0.30	0.97

CNT Control diet, OL Olive oil diet, PO Palm olein diet, SF Sunflower oil diet, DM Dry matter, OM Organic matter, CP Crude protein, EE Ether extract, NDF Neutral detergent fiber, ADF Acid detergent fiber, C-16:0 Palmitic acid, C-18:0 Stearic acid, C-18:1, n 9 Oleic acid, C-18:2, n 6 Linoleic acid, C-18:3, n 3 Linolenic acid

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