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. 2020 Oct 5;14:1178630220943206. doi: 10.1177/1178630220943206

Table 5.

Practices including administering antibiotics to pigs, disposing of dead pigs and frequency of farm disinfection (n = 101).

Information %
When do you use antibiotics (multi-choice questions)
Pigs are sick (with abnormal signs/symptoms) 99.0
Pigs refuse to eat 21.8
Other (at least one individual pig is ill) 2.0
Action when your pigs are sick (multi-choice questions)
Call veterinarian for advice and treatment 80.8
Consult drug retailers and buying drugs to self-treat 40.8
Self-diagnosis and medication when pigs suffer with less severity diseases 33.3
Action when your pigs are dead (multi-choice questions)
Sell for relatively low price 34.2
Throw into landfill, lake, or pond (or feeding fish) 52.5
Bury or put in the biogas system 40.8
No answer 3.3
Frequency of farm disinfection
At least once a week 14.2
At least once a month 21.7
Only after selling of pigs 32.1
Whenever outbreaks occur 2.8
Sometimes when feel needed 29.2