Table 5.

Effect of EB on eating behavior of backgrounding and finishing steers

	Treatment					P value
Item	Control	0.5% EB	1.0% EB	2.0% EB	SEMa	Treat	Control vs. EBb
Backgrounding
DMI, kg/d	8.08	8.17	8.05	8.24	0.225	0.93	0.77
SD of DMI, kg/dc	0.92	1.00	0.96	1.01	0.029	0.11	0.07
Meal frequency, meals/d	11.4	12.1	12.0	11.1	0.43	0.32	0.41
Duration, min/meal	13.7	14.2	13.4	15.0	0.61	0.28	0.52
Intermeal interval, min	124.2	115.6	116.3	125.0	4.55	0.32	0.32
Meal size, kg/meal	0.77	0.73	0.72	0.79	0.036	0.46	0.60
Eating rate, g/min	56.8	51.9	55.1	53.7	1.86	0.31	0.14
Finishing
DMI, kg/d	10.6	11.0	10.6	10.5	0.23	0.34	0.64
SD of DMI, kg/dc	1.50	1.60	1.57	1.52	0.055	0.49	0.33
Meal frequency, meals/d	8.3	8.6	8.1	8.0	0.32	0.52	0.84
Duration, min/meal	9.5	10.2	10.4	10.6	0.52	0.51	0.31
Intermeal interval, min	180.2	172.0	182.5	186.8	7.77	0.53	0.97
Meal size, kg/meal	1.37	1.34	1.38	1.40	0.058	0.91	0.99
Eating rate, g/min	139.2	136.2	133.5	132.1	5.64	0.81	0.41

^a n = 20 steers per treatment; individual steer was the experiment unit.

^bControl vs. EB = control vs. all EB treatments.

^cDay-to-day variation of DMI.