Table 3.
Novel object test.
| Experiment 1 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variable | Overall P-value | |||||
| P-NO | O-NO | T-NO | P-NO | O-NO | T-NO | |
| Latency to peck the NO | Latency to one bird length from the NO | Latency to two bird lengths from the NO | ||||
| Maternal age | 0.6810 | 0.0097 | 0.0395 | |||
| Young | 94.0 ± 3.4 | 49.8 ± 4.2a | 18.9 ± 2.4a | |||
| Ideal | 95.4 ± 3.3 | 41.9 ± 3.7ab | 15.0 ± 2.0ab | |||
| Old | 91.3 ± 3.4 | 38.9 ± 3.6b | 15.0 ± 2.4b | |||
| Maternal treatment | 0.8391 | 0.9624 | 0.9961 | |||
| Trt 1 (AV × AV) | 94.0 ± 4.1 | 45.0 ± 4.4 | 18.0 ± 3.4 | |||
| Trt 2 (CC × CC) | 95.6 ± 4.4 | 43.1 ± 4.8 | 17.0 ± 3.3 | |||
| Trt 3 (AV × CC) | 91.9 ± 4.6 | 41.2 ± 4.6 | 14.5 ± 2.2 | |||
| Trt 4 (CC × FC) | 95.6 ± 4.2 | 43.0 ± 4.9 | 14.2 ± 2.6 | |||
| Trt 5 (AV × FC) | 90.8 ± 4.5 | 45.6 ± 5.3 | 17.8 ± 3.1 | |||
| Offspring age | < 0.0001 | < 0.0001 | < 0.0001 | |||
| 3 weeks | 120.0 ± 0.0a | 94.3 ± 3.0a | 38.4 ± 3.0a | |||
| 5 weeks | 100.8 ± 2.8b | 23.0 ± 1.2b | 9.1 ± 0.5b | |||
| 10 weeks | 60.0 ± 3.2c | 13.3 ± 1.0c | 1.5 ± 0.1c | |||
| Materal age × Trt | 0.1715 | 0.1719 | 0.0505 | |||
| Maternal age × offspring age | 0.5486 | 0.1833 | 0.8924 | |||
| Trt × offspring age | 0.9842 | 0.6693 | 0.1507 | |||
Means ± SEM for latency to peck and latency to approach a novel object for progeny from Experiment 1.
abcValues within a column for Maternal Age and Progeny Age with different superscripts differ P < 0.05.