Table 5 Significant results of weight, number of skin lesions and number of vocalizations during open field and novel object test. The post-hoc test used to ANOVA One way was a Tukey and for Kruskal–Wallis was a Nemenyi test. Degrees of freedom always were 2.

From: The in-utero experience of piglets born from sows with lameness shapes their life trajectory

Variable

Age days

Test

Mean

p-value

Post-hoc p-value

G1

G2

G3

G1–G2

G1–G3

G2–G3

Weight (kg)

27

Kruskal–Wallis

8.00

8.45

7.95

0.022

0.08

0.93

0.04

Skin lesions

28

2.69

5.08

2.95

0.003

0.01

0.99

0.02

29

24.79

32.49

30.58

0.026

0.02

0.26

0.70

Open field test vocalizations

30

ANOVA One way

219

170

183

0.044

0.04

0.35

1.00

Novel object test vocalizations

Kruskal–Wallis

221

160

178

0.002

0.001

0.12

0.51