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End of lay postmortem findings in aviary housed laying hens

open access: yesPoultry Science, 2023
: Good health and low mortality are constitutive elements of good animal welfare. In laying hens, mortality and pathological findings are usually reported as cumulative proportions from onset of lay to culling.
Páll Gretarsson   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

A QTL for osteoporosis detected in an F2 population derived from White Leghorn chicken lines divergently selected for bone index [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Osteoporosis, resulting from progressive loss of structural bone during the period of egg-laying in hens, is associated with an increased susceptibility to bone breakage.
Burt, D W   +6 more
core   +1 more source

Keel fracture changed the behavior and reduced the welfare, production performance, and egg quality in laying hens housed individually in furnished cages

open access: yesPoultry Science, 2020
Keel fracture has adverse effects on welfare, behavior, health, production performance, and egg quality of laying hens. To investigate this, 90 healthy Lohmann white laying hens with normal keel bones at 17 wk of age (WOA) were used in this study and ...
Haidong Wei   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

A tagged visual analog scale is a reliable method to assess keel bone deviations in laying hens from radiographs

open access: yesFrontiers in Veterinary Science, 2022
Laying hens often suffer from keel bone damage (KBD) that includes pathologies with different etiologies, like diverse forms of fractures and deviations.
Lisa Jung   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Reliability and Accuracy of Palpation, Radiography, and Sonography for the Detection of Keel Bone Damage

open access: yesAnimals, 2019
Simple Summary Due to the recent increase in reports of the prevalence of keel bone damage in laying hens, this has become a topic of welfare concern.
Linnea M. Tracy   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Fluoroscopic freehand and electromagnetic-guided targeting system for distal locking screws of humeral intramedullary nail [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Purpose The current techniques used to lock distal screws for the nailing of long bone fractures expose the surgeons, radiologists and patients to a hearty dose of ionizing radiation.
Di Giacomo, Giorgio   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Biomechanics of landing in injured and uninjured chickens and the role of meloxicam

open access: yesPoultry Science, 2023
: Birds use their legs and wings when transitioning from aerial to ground locomotion during landing. To improve our understanding of the effects of footpad dermatitis (FPD) and keel bone fracture (KBF) upon landing biomechanics in laying hens, we ...
Nienke van Staaveren   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Keel bone fracture status data and SAS code from Wing-feather loss in white-feathered laying hens decreases pectoralis thickness but does not increase risk of keel bone fracture

open access: yes, 2022
Data and statistical code to analyze keel bone fracture status in white and brown feathered laying hens with three levels of flight feather clipping (control, half, and full clip)
Garant, Renee   +6 more
openaire   +1 more source

Glenoid failure in Total Shoulder Arthroplasty

open access: yes, 2011
Compared to hip and knee, anatomic shoulder arthroplasty is relatively poorly understood, underdeveloped and reported loosening rates are very high, the common cause of failure being glenoid aseptic loosening.
Gregory, Thomas Maurice Stewart   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Intra-operative fractures in primary total knee arthroplasty - a systematic review

open access: yesKnee Surgery & Related Research, 2020
Background One of the rare complications of primary total knee arthroplasty is intra-operative fracture. Intra-operative fracture during revision knee arthroplasty has been well-documented but there is limited literature on fractures occurring during ...
Prabhudev Prasad Purudappa   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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