Table 4.
Mean daily food intake, time to finish, orts and intake (% eaten) for all cats (n = 12) when evaluating the effects of dietary Phe (44 mg kg−1 BW) on gastric empyting rate (study 2a)
| Parameter | Treatment1 | Day | P value2 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CTRL | TRT | Pooled SEM | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Pooled SEM | Treatment | Day | Treatment*day | |
| Intake Rate, g min−1 | 5.67 | 6.07 | 0.518 | 6.27a | 5.62b | 5.64ab | 5.95ab | 0.529 | 0.08 | 0.04 | 0.66 |
| Time to finish, min | 14.11 | 13.21 | 1.959 | 13.00 | 13.83 | 13.85 | 13.97 | 1.969 | 0.30 | 0.61 | 0.16 |
| Orts, g | 0.44 | 0.57 | 0.484 | 0.45 | 0.23 | 0.35 | 0.99 | 0.476 | 0.80 | 0.23 | 0.99 |
| Intake, % eaten | 99.36 | 99.27 | 0.618 | 99.41 | 99.71 | 99.55 | 98.59 | 0.620 | 0.89 | 0.20 | 0.99 |
1CTRL = control; TRT = treatment; SEM = standard error of the mean.
2Significantly different when P ≤ 0.05 and a tendency declared when 0.05 < P ≤ 0.10.
a,bValues in a row with different superscripts are different within Day (P ≤ 0.05).