Table 2.
Effect of the diet on BW, BCS and MCS in the trial.1
| Items | Groups2 |
SEM | P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CTR | GF | |||
| BW, kg | 23.44b | 25.40a | 0.21 | <0.001 |
| BCS, score 1 to 9 | 4.01b | 4.64a | 0.12 | 0.003 |
| MCS, score 0 to 3 | 2.62 | 2.33 | 0.09 | 0.055 |
BW = body weight; BCS = body condition score; MCS = muscle condition score.
a, b Within a row, means with different superscript letters were significantly different (P < 0.05).
1
Values are least square means (LSM) ± standard error of the mean (SEM).
2
GF: grain free diet without grain cereals; CTR: control diet with conventional grain cereals.