Table 4. Effect of brine mineral water (BMW) on the daily water intake and intake of minerals of the BMW in the growing-finishing pigs.

Items	Diluted BMW in intake water (%)				SEM	p-value
	0	2	3	5
Growing phase
Water (L/day)	6.631	6.482	6.389	6.399	0.143	0.767
Na (g/day)	0.000d	1.179c	1.743b	2.909a	0.050	0.001
Cl (g/day)	0.000d	2.514c	3.717b	6.205a	0.107	0.001
Ca (g/day)	0.000d	0.215c	0.318b	0.530a	0.009	0.001
Mg (g/day)	0.000d	0.129c	0.191b	0.318a	0.005	0.001
Se (mg/day)	0.000d	0.062c	0.092b	0.154a	0.003	0.001
Finishing phase
Water (L/day)	10.235b	10.585ab	10.502ab	10.953a	0.149	0.042
Na (g/day)	0.000d	1.925c	2.865b	4.979a	0.031	0.001
Cl (g/day)	0.000d	4.106c	6.110b	10.621a	0.065	0.001
Ca (g/day)	0.000d	0.351c	0.522b	0.907a	0.006	0.001
Mg (g/day)	0.000d	0.211c	0.313b	0.545a	0.003	0.001
Se (mg/day)	0.000d	0.102c	0.151b	0.263a	0.002	0.001
Total phase
Water (L/day)	8.433b	8.534ab	8.446ab	8.676a	0.127	0.042
Na (g/day)	0.000d	1.552c	2.304b	3.944a	0.035	0.001
Cl (g/day)	0.000d	3.310c	4.914b	8.413a	0.075	0.001
Ca (g/day)	0.000d	0.283c	0.420b	0.719a	0.006	0.001
Mg (g/day)	0.000d	0.170c	0.252b	0.432a	0.004	0.001
Se (mg/day)	0.000d	0.082c	0.122b	0.208a	0.004	0.001

^a–dMeans in the same row with different superscripts differ (p < 0.05).

Growing phase, 0 to 27 days; Finishing phase, 28 to 56 days; Total phase, 0 to 56 days.