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Animal lameness detection with radar sensing [PDF]
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 2018 Lameness is a significant problem for performance horses and farmed animals, with severe impact on animal welfare and treatment costs. Lameness is commonly diagnosed through subjective scoring methods performed by trained veterinary clinicians, but ...
Busin, Valentina +9 more
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Modification of Domestic Animal Lameness Scales for Use in Asiatic Black Bears (Ursus thibetanus)
Animals, 2023 Lameness in animals is a welfare concern as it can be an indicator of pain. A standardized bear lameness scale would significantly improve the ability of facilities that house bears to monitor, manage, and treat lameness in their animals. The Animals Asia bear rescue center in Vietnam holds over 180 rescued bears with varying health and mobility ...
Mandala Hunter-Ishikawa +2 more
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Animal board invited review: Dairy cow lameness expenditures, losses and total cost [PDF]
Animal, 2018 Lameness is one of the most costly dairy cow diseases, yet adoption of lameness prevention strategies remains low. Low lameness prevention adoption might be attributable to a lack of understanding regarding total lameness costs. In this review, we evaluated the contribution of different expenditures and losses to total lameness costs.
K.A. Dolecheck, Jeffrey M. Bewley
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Addressing Lameness in Farmed Animals: An Urgent Need to Achieve Compliance with EU Animal Welfare Law [PDF]
Animals, 2019 Lameness is the clinical manifestation of a range of painful locomotory conditions affecting many species of farmed animals. Although these conditions have serious consequences for animal welfare, productivity, and longevity, the prevention and treatment of lameness continue to receive insufficient attention in most farming sectors across the European ...
Elena Nalon, Peter Stevenson
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A retrospective study on incidence of lameness in domestic animals [PDF]
Veterinary World, 2014 Aim: To study the incidence of lameness among different species of animals presented to the Veterinary Polyclinic, Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar. Materials and Methods: Outpatient department (OPD) records for the period from January 2006 to December 2010 were referred and information was collected regarding number of lameness in ...
Mudasir Bashir Gugjoo +7 more
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A two-year participatory intervention project with owners to reduce lameness and limb abnormalities in working horses in Jaipur, India [PDF]
, 2015 Participatory methods are increasingly used in international human development, but scientific evaluation of their efficacy versus a control group is rare. Working horses support families in impoverished communities.
A Tsutsumi +30 more
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Journal of Rural Studies, 2023 Lameness is a significant health and welfare issue in farmed animals. This paper uses a governmentality approach, which focuses on how a problem is made governable, to examine an emerging 'ecology of devices' introduced to intervene in, and attempt to reduce, on-farm incidence of lameness.
Holloway, Lewis +3 more
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Pertanika Journal of Tropical Agricultural Science, 2021 The objective of this study was to investigate time to lameness event, prevalence of claw lesions, and their associations with animal-based welfare measures (ABWMs) in dairy cows. A total of 120 non-lame lactating cows (n = 30 each from four intensive dairy farms) having no claw lesion were enrolled in the study.
Sadiq, Mohammed Babatunde +4 more
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Preventive Hoof Trimming and Animal-Based Welfare Measures Influence the Time to First Lameness Event and Hoof Lesion Prevalence in Dairy Cows [PDF]
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2021 Background: The objectives of this study were to, (1) investigate the impact of the Dutch five-step hoof trimming (HT) technique on time to lameness and hoof lesion prevalence in grazing (GR) and non-grazing (NGR) dairy cows, and (2) determine the association between potential benefits of HT and animal-based welfare measures during lactation.
Mohammed B. Sadiq +7 more
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Environmental effects on progesterone profile measures of dairy cow fertility [PDF]
, 2006 Environmental effects on fertility measures early in lactation, such as the interval from calving to first luteal activity (CLA), proportion of samples with luteal activity during the first 60 days after calving (PLA) and interval to first ovulatory ...
B. Berglund +32 more
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