Identifying physiological measures of lifetime welfare status in pigs: exploring the usefulness of haptoglobin, C- reactive protein and hair cortisol sampled at the time of slaughter

Table 1 Health issue scoring systems adapted from Welfare Quality®^a

Measure	Score	Description
Lameness	0	Normal gait
	1	Difficulty in walking, but still using all legs
	2	Severely lame, minimum weight–bearing on the affected limb
	3	No weight–bearing on the affected limb or not able to walk
Scouring	0	No evidence of scouring
	1	Possibly present by diarrhoea/staining around and below anus
	2	Observed in the act of scouring
Coughing	0	Absent
	1	Present (once)
	2	Persistent (more than once)

ISSN: 2046-0481