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. 2014 Sep 17;45(1):117–126. doi: 10.1007/s10519-014-9671-9

Table 2.

Behaviours during the finishing phase (weeks 8–23) in percentage of behavioural scans for each treatment group: high and low IGEg pigs both in barren (B) and enriched (E) pens, with P values for the difference between IGEg groups (P-IGE), the difference between housing conditions (P-HC), and their interaction (IGE × HC)

Behav. finishing High E High B Low E Low B SEM P-IGE P-HC IGE × HC
Sleeping 51 55 50 53 1 0.14 0.004 0.54
Lying inactive 14 17 16 17 0.4 0.12 0.002 0.03
Standing 1.1 0.88 0.96 0.95 0.1 0.65 0.12 0.15
Locomotion 0.97 0.79 0.76 0.82 0.1 0.11 0.33 0.04
Sitting 1.9 1.3 2.0 1.4 0.1 0.50 <0.001 0.80
Comfort behav. 0.13 0.07 0.08 0.05 0.01 0.005 <0.001 0.06
Eating 7.2 8.0 7.2 8.1 0.2 0.72 <0.001 0.91
Drinking 2.8 1.9 2.8 2.3 0.1 0.13 <0.001 0.08
Urinate/defecate 0.26 0.34 0.32 0.36 0.03 0.09 0.02 0.41
Playing 0.08 0.05 0.13 0.11 0.03 0.14 0.28 0.69
Exploration floor 8.0 6.0 7.5 6.8 0.4 0.73 0.004 0.09
Nosing object 1.9 1.4 1.8 1.7 0.1 0.37 0.004 0.08
Rooting 1.8 0.4 1.6 0.45 0.1 0.82 <0.001 0.40
Rooting object 0.08 0.06 0.08 0.07 0.01 0.99 0.74 0.85
Chewing 5.8 3.5 5.6 3.4 0.2 0.41 <0.001 0.86
Chewing toy 0.82 1.1 1.1 1.8 0.2 0.005 0.03 0.22
Nosing body 0.75 0.87 0.79 1.0 0.1 0.21 0.02 0.52
Nose contact 0.17 0.17 0.15 0.15 0.02 0.34 0.76 0.95
Belly nosing 0.03 0.13 0.02 0.09 0.03 0.37 0.002 0.40
Mounting 0.03 0.00 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.45 0.18 0.23
Fighting 0.05 0.03 0.03 0.02 0.01 0.25 0.07 0.39
Head knock 0.03 0.04 0.04 0.03 0.01 0.82 0.80 0.92
Biting 0.01 0.04 0.04 0.05 0.01 0.006 0.03 0.30
Fighting at feeder 0.03 0.05 0.05 0.06 0.01 0.30 0.19 0.97
Tail biting 0.05 0.18 0.07 0.17 0.02 0.70 <0.001 0.51
Ear biting 0.08 0.14 0.11 0.18 0.02 0.03 0.004 0.86
Manip. other 0.17 0.40 0.20 0.40 0.04 0.70 <0.001 0.73

Values are LSmeans of untransformed data with standard error (SEM)