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. 2019 Jun 18;9(6):371. doi: 10.3390/ani9060371

Table 2.

Effect of feeding system on animal behaviour (% of observation time), social and aggressive interactions (n/cow).

Item Posture Housing Grazing SEM 1 p
Outdoors Lying, % 34.2 10.5 1.93 <0.0001
Standing, % 32.6 53.5 3.74 <0.0001
Indoors Lying, % 5.52 15.9 2.06 0.0006
Standing, % 27.6 20.1 2.29 0.1074
Grazing (GR), % -- 46.8
Eating indoors (EI), % 31.9 16.0
Eating (GR + EI), % 31.9 62.8 2.28 <0.0001
Drinking, % 1.92 0.46 0.145 0.0304
Ruminating, % 29.2 26.6 2.13 0.4996
Walking, % 5.58 2.15 0.492 0.0052
Idling, % 30.4 8.37 1.70 <0.0001
Affiliative interactions, n 1.43 3.18 0.344 0.0007
Aggressive interactions, n 0.25 0.56 0.121 0.1186
Self-grooming, n 2.98 1.75 0.322 0.0096

1 SEM = standard error of mean.