Table 2.
Article type and stage of production listed in the article at the beginning of the study and at the conclusion of the study.
| Stage of Production at the Beginning of the Study | Stage of Production at the End of the Study | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nursing | Nursery | Grower | Finisher | Adult | Nursing | Nursery | Grower | Finisher | Adult | |
| Article Type | ||||||||||
| Conference Proceedings | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Full Text Articles 1 |
16 | 25 | 18 | 30 | 4 | 0 | 14 | 7 | 67 | 5 |
| Research Reports 2 |
0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| Total | 16 | 28 | 21 | 31 | 5 | 0 | 14 | 10 | 71 | 6 |
1 Full-text articles included journal articles found in peer-reviewed sources and included an abstract, introduction, methods, results, discussion and reference lists. 2 Research reports included short communications which did not meet full-text article inclusion criteria.