Category | n | % | |
---|---|---|---|
How do you administer antimicrobials to the pigs? | Injections when sick | 87 | 100 |
In feed/orally when sick | 18 | 21 | |
In water when sick | 1 | 1 | |
To sows after farrowing (n=58a) | 5 | 9 | |
In feed routinely | 8 | 9 | |
If only some pigs are sick, to which pigs do you administer antimicrobials? (n = 86) | Only the sick pigs | 65 | 76 |
All pigsb | 21 | 24 | |
Do you administer antimicrobials as a prophylaxis? | Yes | 14 | 16 |
No | 72 | 83 | |
Unsurec | 1 | 1 | |
Does the feed concentrate contain antimicrobials? (n = 91d) | Yes | 34 | 37 |
No | 8 | 9 | |
Don’t know | 42 | 46 | |
Don’t use concentrates | 7 | 8 | |
Do you sometimes give human medicines that contain antimicrobials to the animals? | Yes | 9 | 10 |
No | 77 | 89 | |
Don’t know | 1 | 1 | |
Do you sometimes end treatment prematurely if the animal gets better? | Yes | 57 | 66 |
No | 30 | 34 | |
What do you do with antimicrobials that are left (and have expired)? (n = 84) | Throw away to pond/environment | 36 | 43 |
Bury | 20 | 24 | |
Burn | 3 | 4 | |
Take back to veterinarian/animal health worker | 8 | 10 | |
Throw to the person collecting waste | 11 | 13 | |
Keep at home | 4 | 5 | |
Don’t know | 2 | 2 | |
Do you have a withdrawal period (according to instructions) between antimicrobial treatment and slaughter/trader collecting animals? (n = 81) | Yes | 8 | 10 |
No | 38 | 47 | |
Don’t know | 1 | 1 | |
Never been sick around time of slaughter | 32 | 40 | |
Other | 2 | 2 |