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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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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.
K. Dolecheck, J. 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
Elena Nalon, Peter Stevenson
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Animal, 2010 The EU project Welfare Quality® proposes an overall assessment system for animal welfare based on animal outcomes. The objective of this study was to test inter-observer reliability (IOR) when assessing lameness, fear and slipping and falling scores as ...
A. Dalmau +8 more
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Lameness in Dairy Cow Herds: Disease Aetiology, Prevention and Management
Dairy, 2022 As livestock production systems have changed to intensive commercial structures to meet the increasing demand for animal-based products, there has been an increase in food production diseases, subsequently resulting in animal welfare issues.
Mary Garvey
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Animals, 2023 Lameness in dairy cows poses a significant challenge to improving animal well-being and optimizing economic efficiency in the dairy industry. To address this, employing automated animal surveillance for early lameness detection and prevention through ...
Anastasia I. Lavrova +8 more
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Journal of Rural Studies, 2022 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 ...
L. Holloway +3 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.
Mandala Hunter-Ishikawa +2 more
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Poultry Science, 2020 The feed additive Availa-ZMC was investigated for the ability to reduce lameness in broilers using 2 alternative models for inducing lameness. The mixture of organic trace minerals was effective in reducing lameness by 20% in the wire flooring model and ...
Adnan A.K. Alrubaye +9 more
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A systematic review and meta-analyses of risk factors associated with lameness in dairy cows
BMC Veterinary Research, 2019 Background Lameness in dairy cows has been an ongoing concern of great relevance to animal welfare and productivity in modern dairy production. Many studies have examined associations between various factors related to housing, management, and the ...
Andreas W. Oehm +4 more
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