Table 6. The evaluation of tissue composition of the cuts of lambs fed pelleted complete diets with levels of neutral detergent fibers (NDFs)
Parameters | Dietary groups1) | SEM | p-value |
Diet 1 | Diet 2 | Diet 3 | Groups | Quadratic |
Cut (g) | 681 | 630 | 591 | 42.46 | 0.343 | 0.908 |
Fat (%) | 31.17a | 18.29c | 24.50b | 1.107 | <0.0001 | 0.001 |
Meat (%) | 43.53b | 52.09a | 45.77b | 1.482 | 0.001 | 0.005 |
Bone (%) | 22.29 | 25.07 | 25.08 | 1.107 | 0.147 | 0.320 |
Trimmings (%) | 3.00b | 4.55a | 4.65a | 0.471 | 0.038 | 0.027 |
Dietary groups consisted of pelleted complete diets with varying NDF content: Diet 1 (20.98% NDF), Diet 2 (28.23% NDF), and Diet 3 (34.82% NDF).
Superscripts represent significant differences (p<0.05) between dietary groups for each parameter within a row.