Relationships between pig farm management and facilities and lung lesions' scores and between lung lesions scores and carcass characteristics

Table 2 The frequency and severity of post-mortem lung lesions (EP-like and PP-like) in pigs from 22 herds

Herd	Number of lungs assessed	Lungs without lesions % (n)	EP-like lesions (score 0–28)			PP-like lesions (score 1–4)			APPI
Herd	Number of lungs assessed	Lungs without lesions % (n)	Lungs % (n)	Average score (all lungs)	Average score (lungs with lesions)	Lungs % (n)	Average score (all lungs)	Average score (lungs with lesions)	APPI
1	80	11.3 (9)	87.5 (70)	2.58	2.94	22.5 (18)	0.64	2.83	0.54
2	76	32.9 (25)	60.5 (46)	2.17	3.59	6.6 (5)	0.16	2.40	0.16
3	100	20.0 (20)	78.0 (78)	2.44	3.13	4.0 (4)	0.08	2.00	0.08
4	80	52.5 (42)	40.0 (32)	1.24	3.09	2.5 (2)	0.08	3.00	0.08
5	80	20.0 (16)	80.0 (64)	2.85	3.56	2.5 (2)	0.05	2.00	0.05
6	105	24.8 (26)	71.4 (75)	2.19	3.07	4.8 (5)	0.11	2.40	0.11
7	76	5.3 (4)	92.1 (70)	4.70	5.10	14.5 (11)	0.24	1.64	0.16
8	120	51.7 (62)	45.0 (54)	1.70	3.78	3.3 (4)	0.08	2.50	0.08
9	75	16.0 (12)	76.0 (57)	3.64	4.79	2.7 (2)	0.03	1.00	nd
10	86	47.7 (41)	47.7 (41)	0.90	1.88	3.5 (3)	0.03	1.00	nd
11	80	26.3 (21)	73.8 (59)	2.43	3.29	0 (0)	nd	nd	nd
12	120	10.8 (13)	88.3 (106)	5.68	6.43	16.7 (20)	0.24	1.45	0.15
13	75	5.3 (4)	94.7 (71)	6.08	6.42	18.7 (14)	0.28	1.50	0.16
14	80	23.8 (19)	70.0 (56)	2.75	3.93	11.3 (9)	0.21	1.89	0.18
15	75	41.3 (31)	49.3 (37)	1.25	2.54	6.7 (5)	0.09	1.40	0.05
16	102	8.8. (9)	88.2 (90)	4.62	5.23	18.6 (19)	0.39	2.11	0.33
17	140	4.3 (6)	92.9 (130)	5.47	5.89	17.9 (25)	0.31	1.72	0.21
18	75	25.3 (19)	70.7 (53)	4.67	6.60	80 (6)	0.16	2.00	0.13
19	81	4.9 (4)	84.0 (68)	3.22	3.84	43.2 (35)	0.98	2.26	0.89
20	100	55.0 (55)	37.0 (37)	0.70	1.89	5.0 (5)	0.06	1.20	0.02
21	90	6.7 (6)	92.2 (83)	4.98	5.40	28.9 (26)	0.56	1.92	0.44
22	80	2.5 (2)	93.8 (75)	7.22	7.69	18.8 (15)	0.36	1.93	0.26

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