Fig 1.
The Human-Animal Relationship Model based on the Theory of Planned Behaviour adapted from [14].
Table 1.
Animal-based welfare measures used to assess ewe welfare.
Table 2.
Spearman’s rank correlations between management and welfare outcomes.
Table 3.
Farm demographics according to enterprise, flock size and breed.
The range of the ewe flock sizes is presented in parentheses.
Table 4.
Spearman’s rank correlation between farm characteristics and welfare outcomes.
Table 5.
Spearman’s rank correations between general attitudes towards sheep and welfare outcomes.
Table 6.
Spearman’s rank correations between general attitudes towards handling sheep and welfare outcomes.
Table 7.
Logistic regression analysis for farmer attitudes about management and farmer self-reported management behaviour (n = 32).
Table 8.
Ordinal logistic regression analyses for farmer attitudes about management behaviour and farmers background factors (n = 32).
Fig 2.
Proposed farmer-sheep relationships in extensive farming conditions.