Table 4 Element accumulation in the forages in the field trial.

From: The role of ruminant urine and faeces in the recycling of nutrients by forages

Different fields

Treatment of animal excreta

Yield (g per cut)

N (g)‡

P (mg)

S (mg)

Cu (μg)

Zn (mg)

Mn (mg)

Se (μg)

PP

Untreated (n = 3)

109 ± 15.9a

249 ± 55.8 (n = 2)

309 ± 37.6a

237 ± 52.9

733 ± 149.1

2.66 ± 0.686

9.00 ± 2.159

5.56 ± 5.022

Treated with urine (n = 3)

120 ± 2.9a

317 ± 19.0(n = 2)

327 ± 11.2a

247 ± 13.1

878 ± 80.3

3.18 ± 0.157

10.6 ± 4.09

9.45 ± 3.820

Treated with faeces (n = 2)

50.2 ± 9.29b

181 (n = 1)

174 ± 19.5b

106 ± 29.2

424 ± 107.1

1.48 ± 0.289

5.25 ± 0.465

3.03 ± 0.008

Excreta effect (p-values)

0.0211*

-

0.0278*

0.1080

0.1273

0.1535

0.5541

0.6075

WC

Untreated (n = 3)

91.9 ± 20.08

219 ± 58.8

308 ± 45.9

227 ± 26.2

720 ± 180.0

2.30 ± 0.598

13.1 ± 5.90

6.93 ± 1.987

Treated with urine (n = 3)

117 ± 7.5

287 ± 24.0

376 ± 36.8

281 ± 13.3

853 ± 118.6

2.96 ± 0.345

13.7 ± 3.36

11.0 ± 1.874

Treated with faeces (n = 3)

98.4 ± 13.03

241 ± 41.5 (n = 2)

376 ± 25.1

216 ± 17.2

740 ± 78.3

2.46 ± 0.134

12.3 ± 0.63

8.63 ± 0.868

Excreta effect (p-values)

0.4978

0.5664

0.3828

0.1173

0.7555

0.5267

0.9699

0.2876

GM

Untreated (n = 3)

131 ± 20.1a

228 ± 58.8

351 ± 40.0

298 ± 45.4ab

867 ± 116.5b

2.87 ± 0.279b

14.5 ± 4.10

2.71 ± 0.848

Treated with urine (n = 3)

187 ± 8.5a

328 ± 24.0

425 ± 17.4

390 ± 2.7a

1394 ± 165.3a

4.26 ± 0.211a

12.4 ± 1.28

1.74 ± 1.132

Treated with faeces (n = 3)

117 ± 2.6b

267 ± 41.5

348 ± 13.3

264 ± 8.9b

795 ± 91.1b

2.55 ± 0.131b

9.05 ± 0.562

1.03 ± 0.575

Excreta effect (p-values)

0.0183*

0.0904

0.1425

0.0375*

0.0312*

0.0031**

0.3666

0.4479

  1. Symbols ‘*’, ‘**’ indicate statistical significances of ANOVA test (y ~ excreta) at p-value < 0.05, and < 0.01, respectively. ‡There were missing datapoints for the results of N in PP and WC. The available sample numbers of the missing datapoints were noted in the parenthesis after the analytical results. The lowercase English letters in the same column represent the result of post-hoc LSD test, after the denoted significance ANOVA test result, between the different treatments in the same field.