Skip to main content
. 2018 Jul 1;191:47–55. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2018.04.004

Table 1.

Immediate effects (within 2–2.5 h) of enrichment withdrawal on 991 comb temperature, 991 face temperature and 979 eye temperature measurements from 56 hens. Key explanatory variables are underlined; other variables control for behaviour and body position relative to the camera at measurement. Data were analysed using LMM with hen identity as a random effect.

Variable Comb
Face
Eye
Coef ± S.E. t P Coef ± S.E. t P Coef ± S.E. t P
Intercept 14.80 ± 21.20 0.70 0.49 59.9 ± 4.85 12.35 <0.0001 52.51 ± 5.16 10.17 <0.0001
Treatment - Control −0.38 ± 0.54 −0.70 0.49 0.03 ± 0.08 0.36 0.72 −0.08 ± 0.10 −0.79 0.43
Phase - post-withdrawal −3.48 ± 0.52 −6.64 <0.0001 −0.70 ± 0.12 −5.80 <0.0001 −0.80 ± 0.13 −6.21 <0.0001
Distance to camera −0.67 ± 0.10 −6.86 <0.0001 −0.61 ± 0.02 −26.84 <0.0001 −0.25 ± 0.02 −10.52 <0.0001
Active - Yes −0.42 ± 0.26 −1.65 0.10 −0.11 ± 0.06 −1.85 0.065 −0.30 ± 0.06 −4.79 <0.0001
Cage pecking - Yes −0.04 ± 0.39 −0.10 0.92 −0.05 ± 0.09 −0.59 0.56 0.19 ± 0.10 1.99 0.047
Food-oriented – Hoppers 0.06 ± 0.33 0.18 0.85 0.24 ± 0.08 3.18 0.0015 0.93 ± 0.08 11.61 <0.0001
Food-oriented – Litter −0.41 ± 0.34 −1.21 0.23 −0.14 ± 0.08 −1.81 0.071 0.46 ± 0.08 5.58 <0.0001
Looking – Yes −0.42 ± 0.23 −1.87 0.062 −0.17 ± 0.05 −3.22 0.001 −0.04 ± 0.06 −0.74 0.46
Head angle – Down 0.44 ± 0.29 1.53 0.13 −0.12 ± 0.07 −1.82 0.069 0.08 ± 0.07 1.12 0.26
Head position – Up −0.07 ± 0.38 −0.19 0.85 −0.14 ± 0.09 −1.52 0.13 −0.18 ± 0.09 −1.94 0.053
Head tilt - Side on −0.69 ± 0.32 −2.14 0.032 0.49 ± 0.08 6.54 <0.0001 0.04 ± 0.08 0.45 0.66
Head tilt – Away −0.46 ± 0.65 −0.72 0.47 0.30 ± 0.15 1.96 0.050 −0.07 ± 0.16 −0.43 0.66
Side – Right −0.34 ± 0.19 −1.79 0.073 −0.04 ± 0.04 −0.80 0.43 −0.14 ± 0.05 −2.91 0.0037
Clock Time (min from midnight) 0.01 ± 0.00 2.07 0.038 0.00 ± 0.00 4.91 <0.0001 0.00 ± 0.00 5.00 <0.0001
Body mass (g) 3.36 ± 2.52 1.34 0.18 −0.22 ± 0.40 −0.54 0.59 0.32 ± 0.46 0.68 0.50
Air Temperature (°C) 0.68 ± 1.21 0.56 0.58 −1.33 ± 0.28 −4.77 <0.0001 −1.35 ± 0.30 −4.55 <0.0001
Comb size 0.00 ± 0.00 0.26 0.80 −0.00 ± 0.00 −0.07 0.94 0.00 ± 0.00 0.05 0.96
Phase x Treatment 2.27 ± 0.39 5.81 <0.0001 0.41 ± 0.09 4.48 <0.0001 0.44 ± 0.10 4.49 <0.0001