TABLE 3.
Characteristics of calves'a sections on dairy farms versus other sections on dairy farms and calves' sections on fattening farms
| Covariate | No. (%) of sections |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Dairy farms |
Calves' sections, fattening farms (n = 11) | ||
| Calves' sections (n = 17) | Other sections (n = 58) | ||
| Cooling system | |||
| Fan | 9 (52.9) | 17 (29.3) | 5 (45.4) |
| Fan and nebulizers | 0 | 18 (31) | 0 |
| None | 8 (47.1) | 23 (39.7) | 6 (54.6) |
| Crowdedness (no. of heads/m2) | |||
| <5 | 14 (82.3) | 4 (6.9) | 5 (45.4) |
| 5–10 | 2 (11.8) | 11 (19) | 4 (36.4) |
| 11–20 | 1 (5.9) | 25 (43.1) | 2 (18.2) |
| 21–30 | 0 | 16 (27.6) | 0 |
| >30 | 0 | 2 (3.4) | 0 |
| Method for manure cleaning | |||
| Tractor | 0 | 30 (52.6) | 4 (40) |
| Automatic shovel | 0 | 18 (31.6) | 0 |
| Slatted floors | 0 | 6 (10.5) | 0 |
| None | 14 (100) | 3 (5.3) | 6 (60) |
| Missing information | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| Antimicrobial prophylaxis | |||
| No | 1 (5.9) | 54 (93.1) | 5 (45.4) |
| Yes | 16 (94.1) | 4 (6.9) | 6 (54.6) |
a
Calves were animals <4 months of age.