Table 2.
Percentages of entire males, immunocastrated and surgically castrated commercial piglets and methods of castration used in the 24 countries surveyed
| Country (number of usable answers) | Entire males | Immuno castrated | Surgical Castration | Break-out surgical castration | Pig population* | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Castrated with analgesia & anaesthesia | Castrated with analgesia only (%) | Castrated without analgesia OR anaesthesia | |||||
| % total | % total | % total | % total surgical | % total surgical | % total surgical | ||
| Austria (2) | 5 | 0 | 95 | 1 | 72 | 27 | 2869 |
| Belgium (4) | 15 | 18 | 67 | 3 | 6 | 91 | 6351 |
| Czech (2) | 5 | 5 | 90 | 6 | 31 | 63 | 1548 |
| Denmark (4) | 5 | 0 | 95 | 0 | 95 | 5 | 12402 |
| Estonia (1) | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 10 | 90 | 359 |
| Finland (1) | 4 | 0 | 96 | 0.5 | 99 | 0.5 | 1258 |
| France (4) | 20 | 0 | 80 | 0 | 50 | 50 | 13428 |
| Germany (1) | 20 | <1% | 80 | <1% | 99 | 0 | 28046 |
| Hungary (1) | 1 | 0 | 99 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 2935 |
| Iceland (1) | 5 | 0 | 95 | 0 | 95 | 5 | 36 |
| Italy (1) | 2 | 5 | 93 | 0.5 | 2.5 | 97 | 8561 |
| Ireland (1) | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1468 |
| Latvia (1) | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 368 |
| Luxembourg (1) | 1 | 0 | 99 | 0 | 99 | 1 | 90 |
| Netherlands (1) | 80 | 0 | 20 | 30 | 0 | 70 | 12013 |
| Norway (1) | 1 | <1% | 99 | 99 | 0 | 1 | 1644 |
| Portugal (1) | 85 | 2.5 | 12.5 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 2014 |
| Romania (1) | 0 | 5 | 95 | 2 | 4 | 94 | 5180 |
| Slovakia (1) | 0 | 10 | 90 | 0 | 12 | 88 | 637 |
| Slovenia (1) | 1 | 0 | 99 | 1 | 9 | 90 | 288 |
| Spain (3) | 80 | 5 | 15 | 1 | 7 | 92 | 25495 |
| Sweden (2) | 0 | 6 | 94 | 24 | 76 | 0 | 1478 |
| Switzerland (2) | 5 | 2.5 | 92.5 | 97 | 0 | 3 | 1573 |
| UK (2) | 98 | <1% | 2 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 91 | 4383 |
| Europe-24 mean (median) | 2.7 (0.2) | 78 (95) | 11 (0.5) | 32 (7.5) | 50 (65) | 132920 | |
| Europe-24 (according to pig population) | 36% | 3% | 61% | 5% of the total of surgically castrated pigs | 41% of the total of surgically castrated pigs | 54% of the total of surgically castrated pigs | |
a In 1000 heads- data from Eurostat 2013 except Norwegian pig population data from NorwegianNational Bureau of Statistics 2015