Table 7.

Average coefficient of variation (%) estimates for pens of broiler breeder pullets reared on one of four feed and water provision treatments in a 2 × 2 factorial design (n = 4 pens/treatment)¹.

Week	Treatment				SEM2	P-values
	ED + ADLIB	ED + WR	SAD + ADLIB	SAD + WR		Feed	Water	Feed × Water
3	9.32	11.57	10.08	10.24	1.85	0.78	0.41	0.58
4	9.32	10.49	10.34	8.81	1.70	0.68	0.63	0.44
5	10.23	10.98	10.78	9.88	1.19	0.76	0.67	0.51
6	11.36	10.74	11.28	10.12	1.51	0.97	0.78	0.86
7	13.04	11.09	11.59	7.84	0.85	0.25	0.13	0.31
8	14.62	11.06	11.33	10.6	1.23	0.08	0.06	0.26
9	14.06a	10.96b	12.32a	8.55b	0.88	0.19	0.029*	0.71
10	13.87	11.30	12.85	9.49	1.18	0.55	0.15	0.74
11	15.50	12.60	16.27	13.59	2.84	0.85	0.49	0.97
12	13.38	12.36	15.09	12.64	1.68	0.49	0.67	0.68
13	10.05	12.15	13.62	12.19	1.24	0.07	0.26	0.18
14	16.60	13.12	15.79	11.03	1.38	0.68	0.10	0.65
15	11.49	12.68	12.16	11.71	1.23	0.71	0.51	0.52
16	11.96	12.78	12.08	11.14	1.33	0.95	0.67	0.52
17	11.74	15.48	16.03	13.59	2.43	0.24	0.30	0.23
18	16.12	16.64	15.77	16.82	2.33	0.92	0.88	0.91
19	10.05b	13.13bc	14.50a	9.72c	1.36	0.040*	0.14	0.014*
20	10.42	11.27	12.81	10.01	2.06	0.43	0.77	0.39
21	10.87	12.09	10.70	10.38	1.34	0.93	0.53	0.57
22	11.44	11.73	10.15	11.89	1.75	0.61	0.91	0.69

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.