Table 6. Fatty acid composition of thigh meat of broilers reared under conventional and animal welfare-certified farms

Fatty acid (%)	Conventional farm			Animal welfare-certified farm			Mean		SEM	p-value
	1	2	3	1	2	3	Conventional farm	Animal welfare-certified farm
C14:0	0.77	0.87	0.71	0.87	0.88	0.87	0.78b	0.87a	0.013	<0.001
C16:0	24.09	23.13	23.18	23.33	23.20	22.79	23.47a	23.11b	0.098	<0.010
C16:1n7	6.05	4.98	5.81	5.49	4.93	4.89	5.61a	5.10b	0.115	<0.001
C18:0	6.76	7.20	6.72	6.63	7.09	6.65	6.89	6.79	0.071	0.632
C18:1n9	40.78	39.01	39.62	39.77	39.65	37.68	39.80a	39.03b	0.183	<0.001
C18:1n7	2.42	2.27	2.39	2.40	2.27	2.39	2.36	2.35	0.016	0.931
C18:2n6	16.26	19.37	18.10	18.26	18.68	20.84	17.91b	19.26a	0.275	<0.001
C18:3n6	0.24	0.22	0.27	0.26	0.22	0.24	0.24	0.24	0.004	0.447
C18:3n-3	0.73	1.21	0.86	1.11	1.14	1.17	0.93b	1.14a	0.034	<0.001
C20:1n9	0.47	0.42	0.47	0.45	0.44	0.46	0.45	0.45	0.005	0.555
C20:4n-6	0.93	0.90	1.30	0.94	0.90	1.37	1.04	1.07	0.045	0.467
C20:5n-3	0.11	0.08	0.08	0.11	0.17	0.15	0.09b	0.14a	0.009	<0.050
C22:4n6	0.24	0.22	0.33	0.24	0.28	0.35	0.26	0.29	0.013	0.302
C22:6n-3	0.13	0.11	0.15	0.14	0.15	0.15	0.13	0.15	0.005	0.191
Total	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	-	-
SFA	31.62	31.20	30.61	30.83	31.17	30.31	31.14a	30.77b	0.105	<0.050
USFA	68.38	68.80	69.39	69.17	68.83	69.69	68.86b	69.23a	0.105	<0.050
MUFA	49.72	46.68	48.29	48.11	47.29	45.42	48.23a	46.94b	0.275	<0.001
PUFA	18.66	22.12	21.09	21.06	21.54	24.27	20.62b	22.29a	0.327	<0.001
MUFA/SFA	1.57	1.50	1.58	1.56	1.52	1.50	1.55	1.53	0.009	0.090
PUFA/SFA	0.59	0.71	0.69	0.68	0.69	0.80	0.66b	0.72a	0.012	<0.001
ω-6/ω-3	18.01	20.87	19.62	19.93	20.37	22.77	19.50b	21.02a	0.293	<0.001

Means with different superscripts between conventional and animal welfare-certified farms are significantly different at p<0.05.
SFA, saturated fatty acid; USFA, unsaturated fatty acid; MUFA, monounsaturated fatty acid; PUFA, polyunsaturated fatty acid.