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. 2022 Mar 28;9:840716. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2022.840716

Table 1.

General production data in the pig production chains differentiated by the occurrence of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome.

Rearing phase: Weaning Fattening SEM Year SEM P -value
Productive chain1: PRRS– PRRS+ PRRS– PRRS+ 2017 2018 2019 2020 Chain Phase C × P Year
Pig (thousand) 116.0 65.3 108.2 54.4 6.1 84.1 79.8 81.9 98.1 6.14 <0.0001 0.16 0.80 0.21
Starting live weight, kg 7.1 6.9 32.0 31.7 0.8 18.4 18.8 21.1 19.3 0.8 0.75 <0.0001 0.92 0.12
Final live weight, kg 32.2 31.3 170.9 168.5 1.1 99.2 100.5 101.5 101.7 1.1 0.16 <0.0001 0.50 0.42
Average age, days 55.9 59.8 199.0 203.4 1.9 132.1 130.7 126.4 128.9 1.9 0.058 <0.0001 0.90 0.25
Daily live weight gain, g 449 407 699 674 9.0 541 559 566 563 8.57 0.003 <0.0001 0.36 0.23
Feed to gain 1.71 1.83 3.43 3.62 0.05 2.76 2.72 2.6 2.5 0.05 0.009 <0.0001 0.51 0.01
Total losses2 2.55A 14.49B 4.64A 9.04AB 1.61 9.47 9.72 5.92 5.61 1.61 0.001 0.32 0.04 0.20
Cost index2 1.63aB 1.91bB 0.88A 0.93A 0.05 1.41 1.37 1.27 1.3 0.05 0.008 <0.0001 0.04 0.20
Medication costs2, €/kg 0.04A 0.12B 0.03A 0.04A 0.01 0.07 0.06 0.04 0.04 0.01 0.002 0.002 0.005 0.33
1

PRRS–, the production chain originated from sows seronegative for porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome; PRRS+, the production chain originated from sows seropositive for porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome.

2

Means with differently labeled letters are significantly different at p <0.05 (lowercase) or p <0.01 (uppercase).