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Weaning Mart Survey
Prendiville, Daniel J. Earley, Bernadette
Prendiville, Daniel J.
Earley, Bernadette
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2001-04-01
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Prendiville, D.J., Earley, B., Weanling Mart Survey, End of Project Reports, Teagasc, 2001.
Abstract
The weanling survey was carried out for the period January
1998 to December 1999.
* There were 123,259 weanling surveyed.
* The distance travelled to the mart ranged from 1.4 to 216 km.
* All weanlings travelled < 4 h to the mart.
* The majority of weanlings travelled < 50 km to and from the
mart.
* The distance travelled from the mart ranged from 2.1 to 364km.
* Only 32 weanlings travelled > 500 km on the combined jour
neys to and from the mart.
* The longest distance travelled on the combined journey to and
from the mart was 579 km.
* The number of weanlings that remained within the county where
the marts were located ranged from 23.5% to 99.5%.
* No animals travelled for > 8 h.
* There are no welfare issues involved in the selling of weanlings
through Irish marts.