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Table 6 Percent of 249 indoor and 39 outdoor housed lactating sows from 86 English farms with new body lesions score 0-3 by 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

	Shoulders		Hips		Tail		Spine
Score¹	Indoor	Outdoor	Indoor	Outdoor	Indoor	Outdoor	Indoor	Outdoor
Score 0	78.7	94.9	96.0	94.9	87.6	97.4	90.0	100.0
Score 1	13.3	2.6	2.4	2.6	9.2	0.0	7.6	0.0
Score 2	7.2	2.6	1.2	0.0	2.4	2.6	2.0	0.0
Score 3	0.8	0.0	0.4	2.6	0.8	0.0	0.4	0.0
Total n	249	39	249	39	249	39	249	39

¹0 = no lesion, 1 = redness/soreness where the surface of the skin is not broken or a small area of broken skin/scab (<2 cm), 2 = moderate area of broken skin/scab (2-3 cm), 3 = large area of broken skin/scab (>3 cm)

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ISSN: 1746-6148

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