Table 1.

The effect of housing system and gender on hematological traits.

Traits	Housing System (HS)		Gender (G)		SEM	p-Value
	D	S	Male	Female		HS	G	HS × G
Hematocrit (%)	41.80	42.11	41.12	42.81	0.009	0.8620	0.3514	0.1102
Hemoglobin (g/L)	133.06	134.61	131.34	136.3	2.886	0.7896	0.3905	0.1135
Erythrocytes (1012/L)	2.90	2.93	2.86	2.97	0.063	0.7813	0.3965	0.1160
Leukocytes (109/L)	24.74 a	24.40 b	24.64	24.51	0.096	0.0445	0.4113	0.0040
Heterophiles (109/L)	10.82	11.10	11.06	10.87	0.109	0.1897	0.3628	0.0888
Lymphocytes (109/L)	15.67	15.30	15.46	15.12	0.010	0.0512	0.7607	0.4484
H/L ratio	0.69	0.72	0.71	0.72	0.018	0.6541	0.4589	0.3461
MCV (fL)	144.21	143.65	143.67	144.18	0.213	0.1986	0.2440	0.8395
MCHC (g/L)	318.34	319.42	319.37	318.40	0.477	0.2709	0.3233	0.9631

D = deep litter; S = swimming ponds; MCV = mean corpuscular volume; MCHC = mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration. ^a,b Different superscripts within a row indicate significant differences between means (p ≤ 0.05).