Table 6.
Raw means, P-values and SEM for calf behaviour on the veal farm. See Table 1 for an explanation of which behaviours are included in each category below. SEM is calculated across all data for that variable, regardless of treatment.
| Reared by dam | Transport age | Observation age | SEM | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No | Yes | P | 2 weeks | 4 weeks | P | 9 weeks | 16 weeks | P | ||
| % duration of | ||||||||||
| Contact environment | 13.8 | 12.0 | 0.910 | 13.1 | 12.6 | 0.236 | 12.1 | 14.1 | 0.286 | 0.9 |
| Stand idle | 10.9 | 12.2 | 0.228 | 11.5 | 11.7 | 0.705 | 12.4 | 10.4 | 0.145 | 1.0 |
| Social interactions | 7.4 | 9.2 | 0.063 | 9.5 | 5.5 | 0.084 | 8.7 | 7.7 | 0.143 | 0.8 |
| Count of | ||||||||||
| Social interactions | 32.3 | 44.8 | 0.003 | 42.5 | 28.9 | 0.031 | 38.7 | 37.7 | 0.876 | 2.2 |
| Social interactions given | 21.2 | 27.2 | 0.021 | 26.7 | 18.1 | 0.092 | 24.1 | 24.8 | 0.999 | 1.5 |
| Social interactions received | 11.2 | 17.9 | 0.004 | 16.0 | 10.9 | 0.029 | 13.6 | 14.1 | 0.655 | 1.1 |
| Negative social interactions | 4.7 | 7.9 | < 0.001 | 7.0 | 4.4 | 0.239 | 6.2 | 7.1 | 0.499 | 0.6 |
| Play* | 2.4 | 3.9 | – | 3.7 | 1.8 | – | 2.2 | 2.3 | – | 0.4 |
*Play model did not converge due to too many zeros in the dataset.