Table 3.

Trait characteristics of low (LRWI) and high (HRWI) residual water intake (RWI) and low (WCR) and high (WCR) water conversion ratio (WCR).

Trait1	LRWI	HRWI	Pr>F	LWCR	HWCR	Pr>F
MBW (g)	83.16 ± 5.91	82.93 ± 6.72	0.9000	80.64 ± 7.08	82.73 ± 6.74	0.2898
BWG (g)	2,336 ± 266	2,328 ± 313	0.9230	2,456 ± 269	2,132 ± 284	0.0001
FI (g)	3,383 ± 394	3,394 ± 443	0.9308	3,523 ± 412	3,097 ± 417	0.0007
WI (g)	6,892 ± 665	9,141 ± 819	<0.0001	7,221 ± 765	8,514 ± 1009	<0.0001
FCR (g/g)	1.45 ± 0.06	1.46 ± 0.06	0.5343	1.43 ± 0.04	1.45 ± 06	0.2092
WCR (g/g)	2.96 ± 0.08	3.96 ± 0.28	<0.0001	2.94 ± 0.05	4.01 ± 0.24	<0.0001
RWI	−1,008 ± 121	1,259 ± 342	<0.0001	−966 ± 181	1,159 ± 437	<0.0001
W:F	2.04 ± 0.07	2.71 ± 0.22	<0.0001	2.05 ± 0.07	2.76 ± 0.19	<0.0001

¹MBW: metabolic body weight; BWG: body weight gain; FI: feed intake; FCR: feed conversion ratio; W:F: water to feed ratio.