Table 2. Meat pH, instrumental color, water holding capacity, and cooking loss of chicken thigh meat from conventional and animal welfare farm during cold storage

Treatment			Storage (days)					SEM¹
Treatment			1	3	5	7	9	SEM¹
pH		CTC²	6.37^A^c	6.41^A^c	6.40^A^c	6.56^A^b	6.75^A^a	0.028
		CTW	6.28^B^d	6.38^A^c	6.40^A^c	6.53^A^b	6.69^A^a	0.024
		SEM	0.014	0.035	0.029	0.029	0.019
Color	L*	CTC	55.31^A^a	55.52^A^a	54.99^A^a	54.83^A^a	55.04^A^a	0.409
		CTW	55.77^A^a	55.47^A^ab	55.28^A^ab	54.41^A^ab	54.24^A^b	0.341
		SEM	0.360	0.254	0.552	0.365	0.275
	a*	CTC	6.96^A^a	7.11^A^a	7.71^A^a	7.44^A^a	7.72^A^a	0.222
		CTW	7.16^A^a	7.16^A^a	7.80^A^a	7.38^A^a	8.11^A^a	0.238
		SEM	0.216	0.255	0.276	0.193	0.201
	b*	CTC	4.40^B^c	6.62^A^b	6.91^A^b	7.21^A^ab	7.68^A^a	0.168
		CTW	5.97^A^a	5.91^A^a	6.54^A^a	6.52^B^a	7.23^B^a	0.316
		SEM	0.232	0.281	0.368	0.189	0.128
Water holding capacity (%)		CTC	53.63^A^c	57.17^A^bc	59.58^A^bc	61.61^A^b	69.92^A^a	1.716
		CTW	50.19^A^c	56.45^A^bc	60.04^A^b	63.74^A^b	72.40^A^a	1.975
		SEM	2.242	1.928	0.886	2.181	1.680
Cooking loss (%)		CTC	30.61^A^a	30.94^A^a	30.11^A^ab	28.31^A^ab	26.50^A^b	0.860
		CTW	28.05^A^ab	29.45^A^a	28.90^A^ab	29.85^A^a	25.69^A^b	0.798
		SEM	0.824	0.885	0.661	0.797	0.953

Means within the same column with different letters are significantly different (P<0.05).
Means within the same row with different letters are significantly different (P<0.05).
SEM: Standard error of means.
CTC: Chicken thigh meat from conventional farm, CTW: Chicken thigh meat from animal welfare farm.