Canada: 2003- 3rd quarter (Number of herds= 48)
Measurement Mean Upper 10 percentile Lower 10 percentile
Average female inventory 770.61 1605.5 174.2
  Average parity 2.85 3.6 2
Replacement rate 48.88 34.2 67.4
Culling rate 40.98 25.7 57.5
Death rate 7.78 2.9 12
Ave parity of culled sows 5.17 7 3.9
Average gilt pool inventory 30.68 75.5 0
Ave non-productive sow days 57.72 37.3 74.8
  Percent repeat services 10.26 3.8 18.2
  Percent multiple matings 84.25 98.6 57
Entry - 1st service interval 23.17 0 46.4
Percent sows bred by 7 days 88.04 93.2 80
Weaning - 1st service interval 7.48 5.7 8.9
Ave parity of farrowed sows 3.84 4.7 3.2
Average gestation length 115.13 116 114
Farrowing interval 148.23 142 159
Farrowing rate 79.75 88.3 68.3
Average total pigs per litter 11.92 12.8 11.1
Average pigs born alive/litter 10.84 11.6 10.2
Average stillborn pigs 0.87 0.5 1.2
Average mummies per litter 0.24 0.1 0.4
Percent less than 7 born live 9.14 5.3 13.4
PWM for farrowed and weaned 12.09 8.5 15
Old lits / mated female / year 2.25 2.43 2
Litters / mated female / year 2.37 2.51 2.21
Litters / female / year 2.28 2.43 2.14
Pigs weaned per litter weaned 9.67 10.5 8.7
Pigs weaned per sow 9.53 10.4 8.9
Average age at weaning 20.37 22.7 17.7
Pigs wnd / mated female / yr 22.64 25.8 20.5
Old pigs wnd / Inv. female / y 20.98 24.4 18.2
Pigs wnd / female / year 21.8 25.1 19.1
Pigs weaned / lifetime female 46.31 64 34