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Table 3 Biosecurity practices for backyard chicken flocks in Finland

From: Questionnaire study and postmortem findings in backyard chicken flocks in Finland

Characteristics

No. of flocks

%

Change shoes before/after flock contact (n = 178)A

  

Yes

23

12.9

No

155

87.1

Possibility to wash hands in animal premises (n = 177)

  

Yes

62

35.0

No

115

65.0

Wild birds have a contact with flock (n = 178)

  

Yes

64

36.0

No

114

64.0

Visitors in the animal premises (n = 178)

  

Often

25

14.0

Seldom

125

70.2

Never

28

15.7

Birds inside during 1.3. - 31.5. (n = 176)

  

Yes

135

76.7

No

41

23.3

Connection to a commercial poultry farm (n = 178)

  

Yes

10

5.6

No

168

94.4

Distance to the nearest intense poultry farm (n = 178)

  

<1 km

1

0.6

1-3 km

10

5.6

4-5 km

6

3.4

6-10 km

16

9.0

>10 km

73

41.0

Don’t know

72

40.4

Other farm animals in the farm (n = 178)

  

Yes

98

55.1

No

80

44.9

Pets in the farm (n = 178)

  

Yes

161

90.4

No

17

9.6

  1. AThe total number of participants that answered this question.