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. 2017 Feb 10;7(2):10. doi: 10.3390/ani7020010

Table 4.

Effect of the interaction between the class of the Temperature Humidity Index (THI) and deck level on the maximum surface temperature (°C) recorded at unloading by a thermal camera on the ocular region of Italian heavy pigs transported approximately for 30 min under commercial conditions (least square means).

THI Class * Deck Level SE
1 2 3 4 5 6
1 32.8 x ab 33.2 x a 32.0 x b 33.2 x a 33.0 x ab 32.4 x ab 0.60
2 33.7 y ab 34.2 y ab 33.7 y ab 33.8 y ab 34.5 y a 33.5 y b 0.74
3 35.1 z 35.4 z 35.3 z 35.1 z 35.1 z 35.1 z 0.87

a, b: different superscript letters in the same row are different at p < 0.05; x, y, z: different superscript letters in the same column are different at p < 0.05. SE: standard error. * In THI classes, the following deliveries (ID) were included: 1, 2, 4 and 5 in class 1; 3, 6 and 7 in class 2; 8, 9 and 10 in class 3.