Table 1.
Effects of pair-feeding or heat stress on body temperature indices and feed intake.
Day | SEM | P | |||||||||||
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P1* | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Trt1 | Day | TXD2 | ||
Tr3, °C | |||||||||||||
PFTN4 | 39.32 | 39.08c | 38.95b | 38.92b | 38.74a | 38.82ab | 38.83ab | 38.82ab | 38.82ab | 0.10 | <0.01 | <0.01 | <0.01 |
HS5 | 39.36 | 40.06d | 40.73g | 40.50f | 40.31e | 40.26de | 40.29de | 40.27de | 40.26de | 0.12 | |||
RR, bpm6 | |||||||||||||
PFTN | 40 | 34b | 23a | 21a | 21a | 19a | 22a | 24a | 22a | 4 | <0.01 | <0.01 | <0.01 |
HS | 32 | 88c | 118f | 98de | 100de | 96cd | 105e | 98de | 92de | 5 | |||
FI7, kg | |||||||||||||
PFTN | 2.01 | 1.20x | 1.16x | 1.20x | 1.15x | 1.19x | 1.18x | 1.55y | 1.23x | 0.05 | 0.75 | <0.01 | 0.99 |
HS | 1.97 | 1.19x | 1.14x | 1.19x | 1.14x | 1.18x | 1.16x | 1.53y | 1.21x | 0.06 |
Treatment.
Treatment by day interaction.
Rectal temperature.
Pair-fed thermoneutral.
Heat stress.
Respiration rate, breaths per minute.
Feed intake.
*Represents period 1 values that were statistically used as covariate.
a–fMeans with different superscript differ (P ≤ 0.05).
x,yDays with different superscript differ (P ≤ 0.05).