One steer subjected
to the A-G treatment was removed from the data set
due to inadequate intake of the basal diet (60% of feed
offered). Additionally, data from 2 steers assigned to the
LI-H2O were eliminated from all statistical analyses
because visceral and carcass adipose tissue measures
were not consistent with their treatment cohorts (i.e.,
greater than 2 SDfrom the treatment mean), exhibiting
a phenotype of more mature steers at slaughter. Additionally,
the unbalanced number of observations (n = 6,
HI-H2O) for mass of mesenteric fat reflects unrecorded
data and the inability to quantitatively recover the tissue.
All data are presented as least squares means ±
SEM, with the SEM calculated using the least number
of observations for each measured variable. Treatment
effects were considered significant at P ≤ 0.05 and as
a tendency at P ≤ 0.10.