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Table 5 Number and percent of 288 sows from 86 indoor and outdoor English farms with new body lesions and body scars by body location

From: A cross sectional study of the prevalence, risk factors and population attributable fractions for limb and body lesions in lactating sows on commercial farms in England

  

New lesion1

Scars2

Any lesion

Body location

n

%

n

%

n

%

Shoulder

Left

22

7.6

17

5.9

37

12.8

 

Right

21

7.3

17

5.6

37

12.8

 

Bilateral

133

4.5

6

2.1

  

Hip

Left

3

1.0

5

1.7

8

2.8

 

Right

2

0.7

5

1.7

7

2.4

 

Bilateral

1

0.3

2

0.7

  

Tail

 

22

7.6

10

3.5

32

11.1

Spine

 

12

4.2

13

4.5

25

8.7

Hip, tail and spine total

33

11.4

28

9.7

60

20.8

  1. 1Fresh, open or healing wounds with scabs
  2. 2Healed with no blood or scabs evident
  3. 3More likely to be bilateral than by chance, χ2 = 8.3, df = 1, p < 0.01