Table 3.
Costs of interventions implemented on the five pig farms to control T. gondii infections
| Farm # | Intervention measurea | One-off expenses | Labor (hours) | Total one-off expensesb | Monthly expenses | Estimated annual costs | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PIM | Sterilizing eight cats | €115 | €115 | €25 | ||
| OM | Improving rodent control by a professional company visiting the farm every six weeks (including inside the stable) | €200 | €2400 | ||||
| OM | Placing a new door in the stable to prevent mice and rats from entering | €1000 | €1000 | €131 | |||
| OM | Paving trench silo and tidying up between pig stables | €2000 | 80 | €4265 | 237 | ||
| Total | €3115 | 80 | €5380 | €200 | €2792 | ||
| 2 | PIM | Sterilizing seven cats | €420 | €420 | €91 | ||
| OM | Placing a rattrap | €36 | €36 | €5 | |||
| OM | Implementing fly control by using predatory flies and wasps (only during the summer every 5 weeks, in total 7 times) | €310 | €3714 | ||||
| OM | Placing boot cleaners and using new boots | €126 | €126 | €16 | |||
| Total | €582 | €582 | €310 | €3827 | |||
| 3 | PIM | Sterilizing seven cats | €505 | 11 | €801 | €178 | |
| OM | Improving rodent control by placing poison boxes inside and traps outside every four to six weeks | €101 | €1212 | ||||
| Total | €505 | 11 | €816 | €101 | €1390 | ||
| 4 | PIM | Improving rodent control by a professional company visiting the farm every two to three weeks (including camera surveillance) | €240 | €2880 | |||
| OM | Placing a lid on feeding cartc | ||||||
| OM | Cleaning pig stablesc | ||||||
| Total | €240 | €2880 | |||||
| 5 | PIM | Implementing a new storage for whey feed | €4500 | €4500 | €362 | ||
| Total | €4500 | €4500 | €362 | ||||
All costs mentioned are excl. VAT
aPIM principal intervention measure, OM other intervention measure
bLabor is valued at €28.31 per hour [19]
cNo data on expenses received from the farmer