Table 6
Number of farms and inventory for selected livestock and poultry, census year 2006

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  Beef, steers and heifers for slaughter Sheep Pigs Hens and chickens Turkeys
farms reporting number of animals farms reporting number of animals farms reporting number of animals farms reporting number of birds farms reporting number of birds

Source: Statistics Canada, Census of Agriculture.
Newfoundland and Labrador 48 328 82 4,642 25 1,999 71 1,570,740 19 5,850
Prince Edward Island 490 26,137 69 3,901 149 123,192 152 447,061 26 3,533
Nova Scotia 731 10,038 269 25,195 164 95,131 527 4,248,495 96 206,057
New Brunswick 509 9,006 131 7,341 124 107,254 286 3,272,263 50 100,684
Quebec 3,883 140,903 1,337 306,808 2,454 4,255,637 2,271 28,899,216 307 1,398,803
Ontario 10,842 490,715 3,408 311,162 4,070 3,950,592 7,397 44,101,552 983 3,556,250
Manitoba 4,386 196,439 644 68,096 1,188 2,932,548 1,391 7,891,068 164 684,987
Saskatchewan 8,966 357,126 1,258 132,359 930 1,388,886 2,222 4,784,631 310 209,723
Alberta 11,933 1,780,388 2,181 222,340 1,576 2,052,067 3,935 11,757,860 652 703,462
British Columbia 3,387 87,002 1,652 61,033 817 135,826 4,460 18,341,907 567 822,036
Canada 45,175 3,098,082 11,031 1,142,877 11,497 15,043,132 22,712 125,314,793 3,174 7,691,385