Fiber in Animal Nutrition

Fiber Content of Feed Stuffs 74 Fiber characeriza- tion (as fed basis) Crude Fiber - CF (%) Neutral De- tergent Fiber - NDF (%) Acid Deter- gent Fiber - ADF (%) Acid Deter- gent Lignin - ADL (%) Total Dietary Fiber - TDF (%) Soluble Dietary Fiber - SDF (%) Insoluble Dietary Fiber - IDF (%) % of Insolu- ble Dietary Fiber Cereals Oil mill by-products Sunflower ext. meal 15.8 k 27.8 k 18.4 k 37.7* <1.0* 34.3* 91 Sunflower expeller 37.9* 2.2* 32.7* 86.3 Sunflower hulls 53 h 74.3 h 56 h 20.6 h Soybean ext. meal 48% 3 f 8.9 f 5.4 f 1.2 h 27.6 f 1.4 f 26.2 f 95 Soybean ext. meal 44% 7 f 13.3 f 9.4 f 2.0 h 33.1 f 1.6 f 31.5 f 95.2 Soybean hulls 33 g 54 g 40.5 g 2.1 g 83.9 8.4 b 75.5 b 90 Palm kernel ext. meal 17.7 h 58 h 35.5 h 9.9 h Canola ext. meal 10.5 c 22.6 c 15.4 c 3.4 c 26.6 c Copra ext. meal 13.5 h 51.5 h 25.5 h 6.0 h Sugar by-product Beet pulp, dehydrated 17.8 l 42.9 l 21.5 l 2.1 l 65.6 f 11.7 f 53.9 f 82.2 Sugar cane bagasse, dehydrated 42.9 l 76 l 49 l 9.8 l Grassland product Grass meal 37.8 7.6 j 30.2 j 79.9 Alfalfa meal 26.2 f 45 f 35 f 56.7 f 4.2 f 52.4 f 92.4 Juice by-product Apple pomace, depectinized 30 g 58 g 37 g 1.7 g Citrus pulp, dried 11.9 h 23.2 h 19.3 h 2.6 h Crude Fiber Concentrates ARBOCEL Lignocellulose 65* 85* 66* 25* 89.6* 1.4* 88.2* 98.4 VITACEL Cellulose 78* 92* 85* 5.7* 91.4* 0.5* 90.9* 99.5 © ERLING Verlag