Table 6 Livestock allied environmental attributes of feeding and managemental regimen followed in the present study.

From: Environmental sustainability assessment of tropical dairy buffalo farming vis-a-vis sustainable feed replacement strategy

Item

Diets

DP Management

SEM

P Value

CSM

SRU

Short DP

Long DP

Diet

Time

DP

Residual Feed Intake1

0.17

−0.04

0.29

−0.17

0.29

0.491

0.001

0.643

Faecal Total solids (Kg/d)

8.62

8.55

8.36

8.82

0.23

0.860

NA

0.262

Faecal Volatile solids (Kg/d)

7.93

7.82

7.66

8.09

0.22

0.753

NA

0.263

Faecal Fixed solids (Kg/d)

0.69

0.74

0.70

0.73

0.05

0.520

NA

0.679

Faecal N (g/100 g faeces)

9.89

9.19

9.01

10.07

0.54

0.454

NA

0.751

Faecal Ca (g/100 g faeces)

63.67

64.14

61.13

66.68

4.34

0.934

NA

0.149

Faecal P (g/100 g faeces)

24.91

19.57

22.15

22.32

1.89

0.040

NA

0.875

Milk Ca (mg/dL)

180.94

184.75

183.72

181.97

6.30

0.679

NA

0.161

Milk P (mg/dL)

103.91

102.25

101.11

105.04

3.39

0.774

NA

0.603

MREDC2

21.50

24.58

23.33

22.76

0.90

0.003

NA

0.047

MREDP3

29.53

34.95

31.72

32.76

1.52

0.005

NA

0.491

Water Intake4

138.70

142.88

139.73

141.84

8.92

0.730

NA

0.861

Water/6% FCMY

6.21

6.18

5.97

6.41

0.17

0.921

NA

0.135

Faecal Lignin (%)

16.45

16.30

16.22

16.53

1.37

0.871

NA

0.735

Faecal Sand (%)

6.63

6.87

6.73

6.77

0.51

0.504

NA

0.921

  1. NA – Not applicable.
  2. 1Calculated according to Cohen-Zinder et al. (2016)60.
  3. 2MREDC (Milk retention efficiency of dietary Calcium) = Milk Ca × 100 ÷ Ca Intake.
  4. 3MREDP (Milk retention efficiency of dietary Phosphorous) = Milk P × 100 ÷ P Intake.
  5. 4Water intake = Voluntary water intake + Moisture content of forage and concentrate mixture intake.
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