From: On-farm biosecurity practices and causes of preweaning mortality in Canadian commercial mink kits
Parameter | Range | Mean | Median | SD | 95% CI |
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Farm size (# breeding females) | 700 to 6900 | 3066 | 3400 | 2022 | 1708 to 4425 |
# of years in operation | 15 to 85 | 59.5 | 67 | 24.7 | 43.0 to 76.1 |
# of full-time employees | 0 to 11 | 5.2 | 6 | 3.7 | 2.7 to 7.7 |
# of part-time summer employees | 0 to 11 | 2.5 | 1 | 3.4 | 0.2 to 4.73 |
# of part-time employees at pelting | 0 to 20 | 5.6 | 3 | 5.6 | 1.3 to 8.9 |
# of pelts produced (2013) | 2800 to 36,000 | 14,668 | 16,900 | 10,734 | 7457 to 21,879 |
# of kits born (2013) | 3200 to 39,000 | 5948 | 17,500 | 11,648 | 8123 to 23,774 |