Table 1.
Summary of selected continuous variables for 25,476 trailer loads of broiler chickens transported to slaughter in 2019.
| Variable | Smallest value | Percentile |
Largest value | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1% | 5% | 10% | 25% | 50% (median) | 75% | 90% | 95% | 99% | |||
| Number of birds per load | 48 | 1,092 | 2,875 | 4,224 | 4,978 | 5,760 | 6,600 | 7,480 | 8,460 | 9,385 | 15,696 |
| Reported journey time (min)a | 5 | 14 | 25 | 30 | 45 | 70 | 105 | 148 | 170 | 210 | 365 |
| Reported journey distance (km)a | 2.3 | 8.1 | 12.7 | 15.8 | 27.4 | 52.6 | 90.1 | 138.3 | 169.0 | 209.2 | 419.1 |
| Time in lairage (min) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 60 | 93 | 128 | 168 | 197 | 264 | 1,177 |
| External ambient temperature at loading (°C) | -9.3 | -3.6 | -0.3 | 1.8 | 5.8 | 10.2 | 14.9 | 18.4 | 21.1 | 28.4 | 36.3 |
| Relative humidity at loading (%) | 26.8 | 40.6 | 49.2 | 56.6 | 71.4 | 85.0 | 93.4 | 97.7 | 98.9 | 100.0 | 100.0 |
a
Restricted to 22,744 trailer loads travelling at an average speed between 20 and 120 km/h.