Table 2.
Number of herds with average number of animals by species and production type, in a questionnaire study investigating farmers’ intention to make professionals entering the stable use protective clothing (Sweden, 2012–2013).
| Production type | Number of herds | Number of animals |
Animal category | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median | Percentile |
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| 25th | 75th | ||||
| Cattle | |||||
| Dairy | 432 | 60 | 32 | 100 | Dairy cows |
| Beef, suckler | 569 | 14 | 7 | 25 | Cows |
| Beef, calves for slaughter | 134 | 20 | 7 | 50 | Slaughtered cattle per year |
| Other | 87 | 7 | 3 | 25 | Cattle |
| Total | 1,222 | ||||
| Pigs | |||||
| Breeding | 10 | 188 | 120 | 220 | Sows |
| Multiplying | 47 | 110 | 40 | 288 | Sows |
| Pool | 21 | ||||
| Nucleus | 1,200 | 880 | 1,800 | Sows | |
| Satellite | 4,500 | 2,500 | 5,500 | Piglets per year | |
| Integrated | 60 | 185 | 70 | 300 | Sows |
| Slaughter | 76 | 2,550 | 370 | 4,750 | Slaughtered pigs per year |
| Total | 214 | ||||
| Small ruminants | |||||
| Sheep | 617 | 12 | 7 | 25 | Ewes |
| Goats | 62 | 4 | 2 | 9 | Goats |
| Total | 679 | ||||