Table 5.
Fattening pig farms (n = 40)c |
Breeding pig farms (n = 28)d |
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Mean | SD | Median | Min | Max | Mean | SD | Median | Min | Max | |
A. Purchase of animals and semena | 92.1 | 9.31 | 95.7 | 72.8 | 99.8 | 90.8 | 10.6 | 96.7 | 73 | 99.8 |
B. Transport of animals, removal of manure/dead animalsa | 76.4 | 11.3 | 78.3 | 41.6 | 95.7 | 77.3 | 10.6 | 78.7 | 54 | 95.7 |
C. Feed, water and equipment supplya | 55.9 | 21.8 | 53.6 | 14.3 | 100 | 55.0 | 23.4 | 51.8 | 14 | 100 |
D. Personnel and visitorsa | 63.5 | 19.9 | 64.7 | 14.7 | 100 | 66.3 | 20.8 | 67.6 | 18 | 100 |
E. Vermin/bird controla | 67.3 | 21.5 | 72.8 | 27.3 | 100 | 61.4 | 21.8 | 63.7 | 27 | 100 |
F. Environment and regiona | 85.9 | 19.3 | 85 | 10 | 100 | 88.2 | 15.2 | 90.0 | 30 | 100 |
External biosecurity score | 74.5 | 7.89 | 74.8 | 54.5 | 90.5 | 74.4 | 6.95 | 74.8 | 55 | 84.5 |
G. Disease managementb | 80.3 | 20.7 | 80 | 0 | 100 | 80.0 | 21.8 | 80.0 | 0 | 100 |
H. Farrowing periodb | 27.9 | 26.4 | 33.9 | 0 | 78.5 | 43.1 | 18.4 | 39.3 | 0 | 67.8 |
I. Nurseryb | 43.2 | 32 | 53.6 | 0 | 89.3 | 57.2 | 23.8 | 60.7 | 0 | 89.3 |
J. Fattening pigsb | 56.7 | 36.3 | 78.5 | 0 | 100 | 47.4 | 36.6 | 42.8 | 0 | 100 |
K. Measures between compartments and the use of equipmentb | 49.3 | 18.3 | 46.4 | 14.3 | 100 | 45.6 | 15.4 | 46.4 | 17.9 | 85.7 |
L. Cleaning and disinfectionb | 66.8 | 24.5 | 72.5 | 0 | 100 | 59.2 | 24.1 | 61.3 | 0 | 95.0 |
Internal biosecurity score | 60.5 | 14.4 | 59.6 | 25.7 | 89.9 | 55.9 | 12.0 | 57.1 | 29.0 | 87.0 |
Total biosecurity score | 67.5 | 10 | 68.3 | 40.1 | 89.5 | 65.1 | 8.15 | 65.4 | 43.8 | 83.8 |
aExternal biosecurity subcategories.
bInternal biosecurity subcategories.
cAll farms having fattening pigs in our initial sample.
dAll farms having breeding pigs in our initial sample.