Weaning Mart Survey
dc.contributor.author | Prendiville, Daniel J. | * |
dc.contributor.author | Earley, Bernadette | * |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-08-14T11:06:05Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-08-14T11:06:05Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2001-04-01 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Prendiville, D.J., Earley, B., Weanling Mart Survey, End of Project Reports, Teagasc, 2001. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.isbn | 1841702188 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11019/1392 | |
dc.description | End of Project Report | en_GB |
dc.description.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. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | European Union Structural Funds (EAGGF) | en_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Teagasc | en_GB |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | End of Project Reports; | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Beef Production Series;15 | |
dc.subject | Weanlings | en_GB |
dc.subject | Animal welfare | en_GB |
dc.subject | Animal transport | en_GB |
dc.title | Weaning Mart Survey | en_GB |
dc.type | Technical Report | en_GB |
dc.identifier.rmis | 4626 | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2018-01-12T08:51:34Z |
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