Table 3 Categorisation of the suspected cause of death for dead and euthanized pigs
From: The use of oral fluids to monitor key pathogens in porcine respiratory disease complex
Cause recorded | Number of pigs per batch (and percentage of the total in the batch) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
A1 N = 786 | A2 N = 1005 | B1 N = 1204 | B2 N = 1063 | C1 N = 709 | C2 N = 1105 | |
Respiratory | 22 (2.7%) | 0 | 16 (1.3%) | 27 (2.5%) | 6 (0.8%) | 7 (0.6%) |
Enteric | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (0.1%) | 0 | 0 |
Neurological | 0 | 1 (0.1%) | 7 (0.6%) | 21 (2%) | 3 (0.4%) | 1 (0.1%) |
Tail bitten | 0 | 5 (0.5%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Wasting | 0 | 1 (0.1%) | 0 | 16 (1.5%) | 0 | 4 (0.3%) |
Musculoskeletal | 0 | 1 (0.1%) | 2 (0.2%) | 5 (0.5%) | 1 (0.1%) | 7 (0.6%) |
Found dead/unknown | 4 (0.5%) | 10 (1%) | 13 (1.1%) | 13 (1.2%) | 15 (2.1%) | 9 (0.8%) |
Total of casualties | 26 (3.3%) | 18 (1.8%) | 38 (3.2%) | 83 (7.8%) | 25 (3.5%) | 28 (2.5%) |