Table 4.
Social network measures using HWI 1 for littermate pens with or without victimized pigs in the pen.
Item | Littermate Pens | SE | p-Value | |
---|---|---|---|---|
With Victimized Pigs | Without Victimized Pigs | |||
# of pens | 3 | 3 | ||
Pigs/pen | 8 | 8 | ||
At 6 weeks of age | ||||
Density 2 | 0.125 | 0.113 | 0.013 | 0.56 |
Distribution of ties 3 | ||||
Absent ties | 19.7 | 20.0 | 2.56 | 0.93 |
Weak ties | 6.3 | 6.0 | 1.45 | 0.88 |
Strong ties | 2.0 | 2.0 | 0.82 | 1.00 |
At 8 weeks of age | ||||
Density | 0.131 | 0.139 | 0.016 | 0.74 |
Distribution of ties | ||||
Absent ties | 19.3 | 17.3 | 2.54 | 0.60 |
Weak ties | 6.0 | 8.3 | 1.41 | 0.35 |
Strong ties | 2.7 | 2.3 | 0.94 | 0.81 |
1 HWI stands for half-weight association index. 2 Density = sum of HWI/28. 3 The number of each type (absent, weak, or strong) of ties. The number of possible ties was 28 for each pen of 8 pigs.