BECAL (The Boehringer Ingelheim Economic Calculator) was created in collaboration with industry experts to provide a convenient tool for the economic analysis of vaccination interventions. BECALsow looks at health interventions in the sow herd and evaluates preventative health measures by easily calculating the return of investment based on production data.
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Biological performance
Baseline
Alternative
Difference
Gestation length
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Lactation length
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d
Wean to service
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d
d
Return to eastrus
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%
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d
d
Mortality and culls during gestation
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%
d
d
d
Abortions
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%
%
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d
d
Ave NPD
Litters per sow per year
Total born per litter
Mumies
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%
%
Stillborn
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%
%
Live born per litter
Pre-weaning motality
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%
Pigs weaned per litter
Pigs weaned per sow per year
Replacement rate sows
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%
%
Moratlity sows
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%
%
Costs
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Alternative
Difference
Cost per gilt
€
Variable cost per piglet weaned (e.g. creep feed)
€
Revenue
Baseline
Alternative
Difference
Revenue per weaned piglet
€
Revenue per cull sow
€
Margin over replacement cost per sow per year
€
Cost of intervention per sow/year
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Net benefit
€
Return on Investment (ROI)