Effects of mulberry leaf silage on antioxidant and immunomodulatory activity and rumen bacterial community of lambs

Table 3 Effect of alfalfa silage (AS) and mulberry leaf silage (MS) based diets on rumen fermentation characteristics in lambs

Items	Treatments		SEM	P-value
Items	AS	MS	SEM	P-value
pH	5.88	5.64	0.231	0.42
Ammonia-N, mg/100 mL	24.1	31.3	5.46	0.40
Total VFA, mmol/L	110.6	128.2	18.42	0.54
Molar proportion, %
Acetate	64.8	62.0	2.42	0.44
Propionate	19.5	24.3	2.87	0.29
Butyrate	12.2	10.7	1.31	0.45
Valerate	1.06	1.27	0.135	0.33
Isobutyrate	0.85	0.49	0.125	0.09
Isovalerate	1.51	1.29	0.330	0.66
Acetate:Propionate	3.35	3.34	0.733	0.99

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