Table 5.

Significant retrospective associations between on-farm animal-based welfare indicators and routinely collected slaughterhouse parameters.

Response variable	Slaughterhouse parameter	Coefficient (r)	SEM	t value	Pr > |t|	95% confidence limits
Welfare indicators measured by transect walks
Immobile	Rejected owing to machine or technical issues	0.010	0.005	2.14	0.046	0.000	0.019
Lame	Rejected owing to leg or joint issues	1.016	0.427	2.38	0.028	0.120	1.912
Head wounds	Small	1.974	0.641	3.08	0.007	0.627	3.321
Wing wounds	Age	−0.036	0.016	−2.17	0.045	−0.070	−0.001
	Average carcass weight	0.000	0.000	2.16	0.045	0.000	0.001
Tail wounds	No model selected
Small
Featherless	Rejected owing to heart issues	2.131	0.805	2.65	0.017	0.433	3.829
	Airsacculitis	0.419	0.131	3.19	0.005	0.142	0.697
Dirty	Total condemnations	−0.290	0.109	−2.65	0.018	−0.522	−0.058
	Rejected owing to heart issues	−1.415	0.540	−2.62	0.019	−2.560	−0.270
	Airsacculitis	0.568	0.138	4.11	0.001	0.275	0.861
Sick	No model selected
Terminal ill
Dead
Mortality, %	Average carcass weight	0.002	0.001	2.05	0.056	0.000	0.004
	Rejected owing to liver issues	19.932	5.142	3.88	0.001	9.082	30.782