AA-RES-WORKFLOW-001 v1.2

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t The Client may in its sole discretion, terminate this Deed immediately on written notice to the Company if at any time: (a) the Company breaches any essential term of this Deed; (b) the Company commits any breach of any provision of this Deed and such breach is not rectified within 10 Business Days after receipt of written notice from the Client requiring the breach to be rectified; (c) the Company becomes or threatens to become or in the reasonable opinion of the Client, is in jeopardy of becoming subject to any form of Insolvency Administration; or (d) the Company perform the Services in a manner which, in the reasonable opinion of the Client, is substantially below the reasonable technical, commercial, ethical standards or business expectations of the Client. 12.3 Payments on Termination If the Client terminates this Deed for a reason specified in clause 12.2, the Client will not be obliged to make any payments to the Company other than to pay: (a) any outstanding Fees calculated pro-rata on the basis of the number of days worked for the Client up to the date of termination; and (b) the unpaid balance of any reimbursable expenses outstanding on the date of termination. 12.4 Survival of Terms The Company acknowledges and agrees that clauses 6, 7 and 10 survive termination of this Deed. 13 DISPUTE RESOLUTION 13.1 Dispute Procedure If a dispute arises out of or relates to this Deed, a party must not commence any court or arbitration proceedings relating to the dispute unless it has complied with the following paragraphs: (a) the party claiming that a dispute has arisen must give written notice to the other party specifying the nature of the dispute; (b) on receipt of that notice by that other party, the parties must endeavour in good faith to resolve the dispute

te the scope, methods, and strength of the evidence supporting each assessment. Boundary Documentation All analyses must clearly define the analytical boundaries, including the Life-Fates (e.g., market animals, breeders, culled individuals), Life-Phases (e.g., rearing, transport, slaughter), Affective Experiences included (e.g., Pain due to injury, Pleasure from social play), and any notable exclusions from the analysis. Evidence Transparency Analyses must provide access to the scientific evidence and methodological justifications used to estimate the intensity and duration of affective experiences. This includes ample documentation and citation of the evidence and knowledge used to support estimates of intensity, duration and prevalence. Uncertainty Representation To avoid overstating precision, all quantitative results (e.g., Cumulative Pain or Pleasure) must be expressed as ranges or probability distributions rather than single-point estimates. This requirement applies to all temporal durations, intensity probabilities, occurrence frequencies, and prevalence estimates. Methodological Documentation Analyses must include or make available all relevant methodological details, including: (i) Pain-Track and Pleasure-Track diagrams, showing time segments and assigned probabilities for each intensity category, (ii) the prevalence estimates and occurrence assumptions used for each Biological Outcome, (iii) any interspecific scaling factors applied (e.g., hedonic capacity corrections), and (iv) all productivity and mortality parameters used in the final Welfare Footprint calculations. Complete Results Presentation 35 Selective reporting is not permitted. All results—including those that may reflect minimal impact or contradict prior expectations—must be disclosed to

d on the public sharing of raw data. However, authors have full right to transfer or share the data in raw form upon request subject to either meeting the conditions of the original consents and the original research study. Further, access of data needs to meet whether the user complies with the ethical and legal obligations as data controllers to allow for secondary use of the data outside of the original study. Conflict of interests: The authors have declared that no conflict of interest exists. RECEIVED on 13th October 2024 RECEIVED in revised form on 13th August 2025 ACCEPTED in final form on 04th September 2025 PUBLISHED on 17th September 2025 01 Shende et al., 2025 1. IN TRODUC T ION skin, claws, and legs (Tuyttens et al., 2008 and Elmore et al., 2010). T he challenges faced by the country in securing food as well as nutritional security for the fast-growing population need an integrated approach in livestock farming. Rubber mats have not yet been widely used in pig production. However, studies of their effect on breeding Pig farming has the potential to provide employment female welfare have shown favorable results, including opportunities to seasonally employed rural farmers and improved lying comfort, and sows and gilts find them supplementary income to improve their living standards. preferable at low environmental temperatures (Pavicic et Pig has got one of the highest feed conversion efficiency i.e. al., 2014 and Ostovic et al., 2015). Rubber mats in the lying they produce more live weight gain from a given weight of area bring about improvements in some aspects of claw feed than any other class of meat-producing animals except and leg health in fattening pigs (Falke et al., 2018). The the broilers. Pigs can utilize a wide variety of feedstuffs viz. floors