Fig. 2

Percentage (with 95% confidence interval) of major, intermediate and minor causes of elimination by cow parity. In the figure, parity equal to or higher than five is represented by five. The causes of elimination have been grouped into “major causes” (causes of elimination with a percentage higher than 15%), “intermediate cause” (causes of elimination with values between 8 and 15%) and “minor causes” (elimination causes with values lower than 8%)