Table 3. Sample sizes per farm in each period in Experiment 2.
| Farm, colour & sex | Autumn1 (growing period) | Pelted (December) | Winter/spring (mating through lactation) | ||||
| E | NE | E | NE | Life E | Late E | NE | |
| A – Black females | 200 (69) | 200 (69) | 108 | 108 | 71 | 109 | 173 |
| - with bunks2 | 16 | 19 | 39 | ||||
| – Black males | 200 (69) | 200 (69) | 99 | 123 | 36 | 0 | 35 |
| B – Demi/wild-type females | 92 (30) | 92 (30) | 65 | 65 | 9 | 0 | 4 |
| - Demi/wild-type males | 92 (30) | 92 (30) | 74 | 75 | 5 | 0 | 7 |
| B – Black females | 108 (47) | 108(49) | 50 | 48 | 43 | 19 | 61 |
| - with bunks2 | 6 | 8 | 9 | ||||
| – Black males | 108 (47) | 108 (49) | 56 | 65 | 15 | 0 | 15 |
| C – Black females | 200 (100) | 200 (100) | 54 | 60 | 126 | 30 | 145 |
| - with bunks2 | 23 | 10 | 25 | ||||
| – Black males | 200 (100) | 200 (100) | 151 | 148 | 32 | 0 | 39 |
| Total | 1200 | 1200 | 657 | 692 | 337 | 158 | 479 |
N.B. numbers pelted and present in winter/spring do not sum to autumn totals due to loss of identity cards during moves, as discussed in the text.
1
Numbers in brackets indicate sample sizes for behavioural data.
2
These individuals are the subset of the total number of females listed in the row above which were given bunks.