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Number of livestock in spring of 2017

Published 18.12.2017
  • In year 2017 the number of cattle, pigs, poultry and sheep dropped from last year. The number of goats grew
  • The number of cattle at start of May 2017 was 893,000, which is two percent less than a year ago
  • The number of pigs went down from the previous year to about 1.13 million pigs.
  • The poultry included altogether 12.7 million animals on 1,270 farms. There were 3.6 million chickens and 7.7 million broilers.
  • There were about 155.000 sheep on 1,400 farms.

 

Number of livestock by municipality and by herd size are published in April 2018.

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