Table 1.

Expected differences in costs of production, meat quantities sold and profits for a small farm (12,000 pigs) in conventional rearing as compared to welfare-friendly rearing.

	Conventional rearing	Welfare-friendly rearing	Difference
Number of slaughter pigs	12,000	12,000	0
Expected slaughter weight (kg/pig)	97.1 [94.944; 99.256]	103.4 [100.264; 106.536]	6.3 [2.476; 10.124]
Meat price ($US per kg)	2.2	2.2	0
Production cost ($US per kg)	0.2045 [0.201; 0.208]	0.0670 [0.065; 0.069]	−0.1375 [−0.142; −0.133]
Total sold meat quantity (Thousand kg)	1,165 [1,144; 1,187]	1,241 [1,209; 1,272]	76 [37.26; 113.9]
Total revenue ($US)	2,566,520 [2,518,732; 2,614,428]	2,733,040 [2,663,422; 2,802,724]	166,520 [82,081; 250,894]
Total cost ($US)#	238,200	83,070	−155,130
Total Profit ($US)#	2,328,320 [2,280,533; 2,376,229]	2,649,970 [2,580,350; 2,719,652]	321,650 [237,208; 406,021]

^#Calculation excluding common costs. 95% Confidence intervals appear in squared brackets, as calculated using a bootstrap procedure.