Table 5.
Descriptive statistics (from 25 Waikato beef farms) for measures that were included in the final protocol and which were recorded as percentage of observed animals.
| Welfare Principles | Measures | Mean (%) |
Min (%) |
Max (%) |
Percentiles | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 50 | 75 | |||||
| Good Feeding | Thin cows | 10.7 | 0 | 61 | 2.6 | 5.7 | 10.0 |
| Poor rumen fill | 30.6 | 0 | 68 | 15.5 | 29.9 | 45.7 | |
| Good Environment | Short tail | 4.2 | 0 | 21 | 0.6 | 3.0 | 6.0 |
| Dirtiness | 21.3 | 4 | 50 | 10.7 | 20.6 | 29.4 | |
| Watery faeces | 39.6 | 15 | 87 | 24.0 | 35.7 | 48.5 | |
| Good Health | Swelling | 0.7 | 0 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.1 |
| Hair loss | 0.1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| Abrasion | 0.1 | 0 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| Lameness | 2.7 | 0 | 12 | 0.5 | 1.5 | 3.6 | |
| Blindness | 0.4 | 0 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| Ocular discharge | 1.5 | 0 | 8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3.2 | |
| Nasal discharge | 1.2 | 0 | 13 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.3 | |
| Accidental deaths | 0.6 | 0 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 1.2 | |
| Deaths from health | 2.0 | 0 | 7 | 0.9 | 1.6 | 2.9 | |
| Culling for health | 1.2 | 0 | 6 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 2.0 | |
| Stockpersonship | Fearful/Agitate | 2.7 | 0 | 7 | 1.3 | 2.3 | 4.1 |
| Fall/lie | 0.9 | 0 | 8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.8 | |
| Stumble | 1.6 | 0 | 21 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.7 | |
| Run exit | 13.0 | 0 | 51 | 2.6 | 7.8 | 15.1 | |