The experiment was replicate on two different occasions for all feeds and the two sources of inoculum.
The source of inoculum and the time at which it was collected had no effect on the in vitro DM digestibility of the feedstuffs in either of the met
The DAISY" DM digestibility value compared well with the traditional method values for the roughage group; however, for some feedstuffs in the concentrate and CP supplement groups, the DAISY" values were significantly higher than the traditional method values
Regression analysis of the feeds that resulted in similar values with the two methods revealed that the DAISY" method can be used to predict in vitro digestibility with relatively small variation