Table 1.
Distribution of sex and colour type and mean wound size for common mink wounds
| Wound type (June) |
Sex | Colour type | Mean wound size (cm2) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ♂ n = 320 |
♀ n = 325 |
Black n = 60 |
Brown n = 562 |
Blue/grey n = 18 |
White/light n = 102 |
Other n = 41 |
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| Ear | 46 (14.4 %) |
20 (6.2 %) |
12a,b
(20.0 %) |
46a
(8.2 %) |
2 (11.1 %) |
3b
(2.9 %) |
4 (9.8 %) |
7.8 n = 53 |
| P = 0.001 | P = 0.01 | |||||||
| Scalp | 21 (6.6 %) |
22 (6.8 %) |
7 (11.7 %) |
31 (5.5 %) |
0 (0.0 %) |
3 (2.9 %) |
2 (4.9 %) |
8.2 n = 34 |
| P = 0.916 | P = 0.137 | |||||||
| Neck | 15 (4.7 %) |
52 (16.0 %) |
4 (6.7 %) |
55 (9.8 %) |
2 (11.1 %) |
7 (6.9 %) |
4 (9.8 %) |
8.7 n = 66 |
| P = 0.0001 | P = 0.818 | |||||||
| Shoulder | 3 (0.9 %) |
25 (7.7 %) |
1 (1.7 %) |
20 (3.6 %) |
0 (0.0 %) |
3 (2.9 %) |
4 (9.8 %) |
7.8 n = 20 |
| P = 0.0001 | P = 0.253 | |||||||
| Wound type (October) |
Sex | Colour type | Mean wound size (cm2) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ♂ n = 283 |
♀ n = 355 |
Black n = 49 |
Brown n = 476 |
Blue/grey n = 25 |
White/light n = 81 |
Other n = 25 |
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| Thigh | 8 (2.8 %) |
49 (13.8 %) |
4 (8.2 %) |
42 (8.8 %) |
2 (8.0 %) |
9 (11.1 %) |
3 (12.0 %) |
9.5 n = 80 |
| P = 0.0001 | P = 0.946 | |||||||
| Tail base | 19 (6.7 %) |
131 (36.9 %) |
8 (16.3 %) |
118a
(24.8 %) |
9b
(36.0 %) |
10a,b
(12.3 %) |
7 (28.0 %) |
19.2 n = 141 |
| P = 0.0001 | P = 0.031 | |||||||
| Tail | 31 (11.0 %) |
63 (17.7 %) |
5 (10.2 %) |
71 (14.9 %) |
3 (12.0 %) |
11 (13.6 %) |
6 (24.0 %) |
6.2 n = 22 |
| P = 0.015 | P = 0.624 | |||||||
Number and proportion of dead or euthanized mink presenting wounds on ear, scalp, neck and shoulder (June), or thigh, tail base and tail (October). The results are stratified according to sex and colour type. Mean wound size is given for each location. Due to occasional more wound types on the same mink and due to inability to determine the sex of all animals, the numbers may not be the same as the total proportions given in the text
a,bEstimates with the same letter are significantly different in multiple comparisons