Table 6.

Individual bird body weight (kg) estimates for broiler breeder pullets reared on one of four feed and water provision treatments in a 2 × 2 factorial design¹.

Week	Treatment				SEM2	P-values
	ED + ADLIB	ED + WR	SAD + ADLIB	SAD + WR		Feed	Water	Feed × Water
3	0.56	0.54	0.55	0.55	0.019	0.84	0.56	0.83
4	0.59	0.57	0.58	0.58	0.017	0.84	0.63	0.83
5	0.64	0.62	0.63	0.62	0.019	0.84	0.57	0.89
6	0.69	0.68	0.69	0.68	0.021	0.94	0.80	0.87
7	0.75	0.76	0.76	0.76	0.021	0.78	0.80	0.78
8	0.85a	0.89a	0.80b	0.85b	0.016	0.046*	0.089	0.99
9	0.94	0.95	0.92	0.93	0.024	0.66	0.64	0.82
10	1.02	1.04	1.02	1.01	0.027	0.97	0.60	0.62
11	1.11	1.10	1.09	1.07	0.025	0.63	0.92	0.71
12	1.23a	1.23a	1.15b	1.20b	0.019	0.012*	0.88	0.18
13	1.33a	1.34a	1.23b	1.32b	0.021	0.0073*	0.59	0.14
14	1.43	1.41	1.34	1.41	0.027	0.053	0.69	0.15
15	1.54	1.60	1.53	1.51	0.037	0.86	0.24	0.26
16	1.69	1.75	1.67	1.64	0.038	0.72	0.23	0.24
17	1.89a	1.86a	1.67b	1.71b	0.024	<0.0001*	0.42	0.14
18	2.08a	1.95b	1.79d	1.87c	0.024	<0.0001*	0.0023*	0.0010*
19	2.18a	2.16a	1.95b	2.08b	0.037	0.0008*	0.69	0.061
20	2.30a	2.35a	2.09b	2.19b	0.050	0.011*	0.52	0.60
21	2.41b	2.54ab	2.63a	2.57ab	0.043	0.0035*	0.052	0.044*
22	2.58b	2.71b	2.72a	2.75a	0.042	0.040*	0.053	0.27

¹Feeding treatments consisted of skip-a-day (SAD) and every-day (ED) feeding programs, while water provision treatments consisted of water restriction for 3 h during the 8 h photoperiod (WR) or ad libitum (ADLIB) access to water during the 8 h photoperiod.

^{2SEM, standard error of the mean.}

Superscripts differing within a row indicate statistically significant differences (p < 0.05).

* indicates p < 0.05.