No significant difference was found for DM and CP
intakes among groups; however, the animals supplemented
with LSO tended to have greater concentrate and CP intake
than those fed the PO diets (p = 0.05). In particular, CP
intake of the animals fed LSO was 97 and 70 g/d higher
than those fed PO (Table 3). Palmquist and Jenkins (1980)
concluded that fat at 5% to 10% of the diet reduced intake
and digestion. Rule et al. (1989) also reported that DMI is
often depressed when diets contain more than 8% fat. With
diets containing lower levels of added fat, Huerta-Leidenz
et al. (1991) reported no influence on daily gain, intake or
feed conversion ratio when dietary whole cotton seed of
15% or 30% (3.3% and 6.6% additional fat) was
supplemented. In the present trial, fat contents of
experimental diets were between 5.0% and 5.1%, it is
unlikely that these levels of fat affected feed intake