Table 20.
Conventional | Elevated pens | Enriched cages | Floor | Organic | Outdoor | |||||||
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Rank | Welfare consequence | Welfare score | Welfare consequence | Welfare score | Welfare consequence | Welfare score | Welfare consequence | Welfare score | Welfare consequence | Welfare score | Welfare consequence | Welfare score |
1 | Restriction of movement | 0.87 | Restriction of movement | 0.92 | Restriction of movement | 0.90 | Prolonged hunger | 0.36 | Restriction of movement | 0.45 | Heat stress | 0.18 |
2 | Inability to express gnawing behaviour | 0.40 | Inability to express gnawing behaviour | 0.11 | Heat Stress | 0.09 | Heat stress | 0.18 | Heat stress | 0.19 | Pododermatitis | 0.11 |
3 | Resting problem | 0.21 | Skin lesion | 0.09 | Resting Problems | 0.05 | Resting Problem | 0.15 | Reproductive Disorders | 0.15 | Resting problem | 0.11 |
4 | Inability to express positive social behaviour | 0.15 | Resting problem | 0.08 | Inability to express gnawing behaviour | 0.04 | Reproductive disease | 0.11 | Resting problem | 0.12 | Skin lesion | 0.10 |
5 | Heat stress | 0.15 | Inability to express positive social behaviour | 0.08 | Inability to express positive social behaviour | 0.04 | Skin lesion | 0.10 | Skin disorder | 0.05 | Respiratory disorders | 0.09 |