Livestock Buildings and Manure Storages
Agricultural Census 2010 - Livestock living conditions and manure storage
15.12.2011
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- Loose housing systems and stanchion-tied stables have equal room for cattle.
- In more than 50% of loose housing systems, manure is processed as slurry, but solid manure is the most common in stanchion-tied stables.
- Nearly 85% of pig places have a partially slatted floor and manure is handled as slurry.
- In 2010, furnished cages and multi-tiered aviary systems had an equal number of laying hen places as traditional battery cages.
- The manure storage space on cattle farms is enough for almost 11 months and that of pig farms for an ave
- More than one-fifth of slurry and solid manure storages on dairy cattle farms are covered. On pig farms the percentage of covered slurry storages is almost 50%.
- Removing manure from the farm is the most common on poultry farms.
- Nearly 90% of dairy cattle farms and more than 80% of sheep and goat farms graze their cattle.
- The grazing season is shorter on dairy cattle farms than on other livestock farms.
- On sheep and goat farms, the share of grazing area in the utilized agricultural area is an average of 60%, and 14% on dairy cattle farms.
Distribution of cattle places by livestock building type and method of manure handling in 2010

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16.11.2017
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