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In the present study, six caecum-fistulated adult female Xinjiang donkeys served as the experimental animals in a 3 \u00d7 3 Latin square design, and mobile nylon bag technique was applied to determine the effect of dietary F:C ratio on pre-caececum and total digestive tract digestibility of rice straw, alfalfa hay, corn meal, and soybean meal. The dietary treatments included: (1) HF, a high-fiber ration (F:C = 80:20), (2) MF, a medium-fiber ration (F:C = 55:45), and (3), LF, a low-fiber ration (F:C = 35:65). The experiment consisted of three consecutive Latin square periods, and each period lasted 25 days. In each period, the animals were administrated naso-gastrically nylon bags (38 \u03bcm pore size) containing aforementioned feeds. After 1.5 h intubation, the bags were checked once an hour and collected at the ileo-caecal junction (small intestine bag, D1) and in the feces (fecal bag, D2). Regardless whatever feeds were introduced, the percentage of bag collected (BC) was quadratically (HF) or linearly (MF and LF) increased against different fixed bag collection time. The highest BC occurred in MF (73.8%), but no significant difference was observed between HF (62.3%) and LF (50.8%). The lowest mean bag retention time was observed in HF (2.7 h), and no significant difference occurred between MF (4.6 h) and LF (5.0 h) diets. For each feed, D1 and D2 digestibility for DM, CP, NDF, and ADF did not differ among three dietary treatments (p &gt; 0.05). Regardless of whatever diets were fed to the donkeys, D2 digestibility for DM and CP among the feeds ranked as: soybean meal &gt; corn meal &gt; alfalfa hay &gt; rice straw (p &lt; 0.01). D1 digestibility for DM among the feeds ranked as: corn meal &gt; soybean meal &gt; alfalfa hay &gt; rice straw (p &lt; 0.01). D1 digestibility for CP among the feeds ranked as: soybean meal &gt; corn meal &gt; alfalfa hay &gt; rice straw (p &lt; 0.01). In summary, dietary forage: concentrate ratio did not affect pre-caecal or total tract nutrient digestibility. The fiber level in feeds was the main limiting factor to affect the digestibility contribution of the pre-caecum in relation to the total digestive tract.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ani10061070","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,6,23]],"date-time":"2020-06-23T09:05:33Z","timestamp":1592903133000},"page":"1070","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["Effect of Dietary Forage: Concentrate Ratio on Pre-Caecal and Total Digestive Tract Digestibility of Diverse Feedstuffs in Donkeys as Measured by the Mobile Nylon Bag Technique"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"given":"Li-Lin","family":"Liu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University (CAU), Beijing 100193, China"},{"name":"College of Animal Science, Key Laboratory of Tarim, Animal Husbandry Science and Technology, Xinjiang Production and Construction Group, Tarim University, Alar 843300, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6039-5540","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xiao-Ling","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Animal Science, Key Laboratory of Tarim, Animal Husbandry Science and Technology, Xinjiang Production and Construction Group, Tarim University, Alar 843300, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5726-5526","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hong-Jian","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University (CAU), Beijing 100193, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,6,20]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"181","article-title":"Technique for long-term ileal cannulation in ponies","volume":"58","author":"Peloso","year":"1994","journal-title":"Can. 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