Table 5.
Differences in prices of live animals sold (with and without the clinical signs of lumpy skin disease, sheep pox, or goat pox) reported by transhumance and backyard farmers in Bauchi State, Nigeria.
| Specie | Place sold | Production type | Median number of animals sold | Median number of affected animalsa | Median number of affected animals overall (1st−3rd qtl) |
Median price per affected animal sold (1st−3rd qtl) ₦ |
Median potential price per animal soldb (1st−3rd qtl) ₦ |
Median percentage lost per affected animal sold |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cattle | Livestock market | BY (n = 3) | 5 | 10 | 2 (1–10) | 45,000 (33,000–60,000) | 84,286 (80,143–87,643) | 47 |
| TH (n = 5) | 7 | 15 | 30,857 (30,000–42,000) | 71,429 (67,500–80,000) | 63 | |||
| Butchers | BY (n = 0) | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | ||
| TH (n = 1) | 2† | 6† | 35,000† | 60,000† | 42 | |||
| Sheep | Livestock market | BY (n = 4) | 4 | 6 | 6 (3–12) | 4,000 (3,875–4,250) | 8,700 (6,750–11,050) | 47 |
| TH (n = 7) | 12 | 21 | 3,857 (2,750–4,708) | 9,083 (6,500–12,262) | 60 | |||
| Butcher | BY (n = 11) | 2 | 7 | 3,500 (2,750–4,000) | 8,000 (6,917–10,000) | 58 | ||
| TH (n = 1) | 15† | 190† | 5,000† | 9,000† | 44 | |||
| Goats | Livestock market | BY (n = 20) | 3 | 8 | 7 (3–15) | 3,000 (3,000–3,625) | 6,679 (5,900–7,625) | 53 |
| TH (n = 5) | 13 | 47 | 2,617 (2,000–4,154) | 6,667 (6,000–9,615) | 60 | |||
| Butcher | BY (n = 28) | 3 | 7 | 2,786 (2,375–3,000) | 6,143 (5,625–9,250) | 58 | ||
| TH (n = 2) | 14 | 141 | 3,931 (3,665–4,196) | 7,433 (7,217–7,650) | 47 |
a
For those farmers that reported selling animals;
b
Price the animal would have sold if it hadn't had the disease; Only one price given.
Data collected between August 2017 and January 2018.