Table 5. Effect of energy feeding levels on performance Holstein steers

Item	22 month		24 month		SEM	p-value¹⁾
Item	T1²⁾	T2	T3	T4	SEM	p-value¹⁾
No. of heads	10	10	10	10
Body weight (kg)
Initial (7.7 month)	240.54	231.02	233.23	232.03	3.82	0.6816
Fattening (11 month)	372.27	370.02	363.12	369.01	12.87	0.2247
Finishing (22–24 month)	745.57^b	797.64^ab	810.52^ab	820.31^a	20.15	0.0923
Average daily gain(kg)
Fattening phase	1.18	1.24	1.16	1.22	0.04	0.1230
Finishing phase	1.11^b	1.27^a	1.15^ab	1.16^ab	0.05	0.0812
Overall period	1.12^b	1.26^a	1.15^ab	1.17^ab	0.06	0.0913

Probability of the F test.
Each group were set to 70% (T1) and 72% (T2) during fattening phase and 74% (T3) and 76% (T4) for the finishing phase, respectively.
Means in the same row with different superscripts are significantly (p < 0.05) different.