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Table 4 The recorded distance that Ross 308 broiler chickens wearing ultra-wideband tags travelled by day in an indoor commercial house, across the observation period.

From: Large variation in the movement of individual broiler chickens tracked in a commercial house using ultra-wideband backpacks

Tag¹	Day
Tag¹	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	A^†	33	34	35	36	37	A^‡
3	766	1262	1713	1192	1140	1598	1160	1018	1229.0	1695	667	916	696	1028	826.8
5	2310	1822	1496	1049	1398	1313	1210	964	1221.3	844	1213	703	477	1131	881.0
7	1162	866	943	952	1230	1087	1445	2181	1485.8	1407	1489	1078	747	615	982.3
8	1183	1701	2139	1404	1339	1455	965	1079	1209.5	791	880	832	771	710	798.3
9	1869	1026	1595	1706	990	1478	845	1694	1251.8	1086	771	594	574	1070	752.3
10	902	1487	1732	1061	1719	1156	642	815	1083.0	681	889	489	537	613	632.0
12	814	832	1092	1195	1145	1083	1601	1536	1341.3	1440	1007	946	801	663	854.3
13	553	1113	1217	1042	1006	1292	636	1270	1051.0	1266	1477	791	864	1528	1165.0
14				897	1280	1044	1401	900	1156.3	1057	726	882	680	1148	859.0
15				1954	1836	2144	1958	2057	1998.8	1300	1205	1113	1098	1460	1219.0
16				1963	2438	2626	1647	2089	2200.0	1638	2258	1831	1023	1438	1637.5
18				1339	1643	1419	1449	1118	1407.3	843	1213	979	831	1210	1058.3
19				790	940	916	1028	741	906.3	1490	972	833	366	731	725.5
22				1422	1495	2110	2175	1864	1911.0	1726	1095	594	677	1195	890.3
23				1586	1000	1407	1954	1300	1415.3	1271	1644	1714	801	1201	1340.0
24				1139	1038	975	1412	915	1085.0	1358	1385	928	1567	1210	1272.5
25				1151	1216	1384	1001	1780	1345.3	1740	1957	1105	626	931	1154.8

Days 31 and 32 are excluded as broilers were penned for part of the day during thinning. A^† displays the average (mean) recorded distance travelled in the four days before thinning (Days 27–30), while A^‡ displays the average recorded distance travelled in the four days before slaughter (Days 34–37).
This is the distance recorded by the ultra-wideband system which has an accuracy of ~ 30 cm. As such, distances may be inflated and are used to represent patterns of movement rather than exact distances travelled.
¹The tagging of birds was staggered, with data available for full days from Day 23 for tags 3–13 and Day 26 for tags 14–25.

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