Livestock Unit Chart
Animals per
Livestock Unit
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SWINE |
5 Sows / Boars* |
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4 Feeder Hogs (30-120 kg) |
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20 Weaners (4-30 kg) |
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BEEF |
1 Beef Cow** |
|
|
2 Beef Feeders |
|
DAIRY |
1 Milking Cow**¶ |
|
|
2 Dairy Heifers |
|
CHICKENS |
125 Caged Layers |
|
|
200 Chicken Broilers / Roasters |
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|
500 Pullets (replacement layers) |
|
TURKEYS |
50 Meat Turkeys (>10 kg) |
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|
75 Meat Turkeys (5-10 kg) |
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|
75 Turkey Breeder Layers |
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100 Meat Turkeys (<5 kg) |
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500 Pullets (replacement Breeders) |
Notes: **Includes calf to 150 kg.
¶ A dairy/cow-calf farm usually has milking cows, heifers and calves. Multiply the number of
milking/nursing
cows by 1.5 to account for the followers when they are all kept on the same farm.
*Multiply number of sows by 2.4 to determine the
number of weaners.
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