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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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Retrospective study of lameness in beef cattle in northeastern Sardinia, Italy
PLoS ONE, 2023 Lameness is one of the most prevalent diseases affecting dairy and beef cattle, resulting in decreased animal performance, decreased animal welfare, and substantial economic loss. In extensive beef cattle farming, the risk factors for this multifactorial
Sarah Morrone +7 more
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Lameness in Beef Cattle: A Cross-Sectional Descriptive Survey of On-Farm Practices and Approaches
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2021 Cattle lameness is a concern to the United Kingdom (UK) cattle industry, negatively impacting upon welfare and production. Previous work involving one small study (n = 21) has identified that some UK beef farmers underestimate lameness prevalence, but ...
Jay Tunstall +4 more
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Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2022 Lameness in dairy cattle poses both an animal welfare and economic threat to dairy farms. Although the Canadian dairy industry has identified lameness as the most important health issue, lameness prevalence in the province of Alberta has not decreased ...
Marlena Knauss +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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Contemporary aspects of the control of lameness on cattle farms [PDF]
Veterinarski Glasnik, 2015 Lameness in cattle is the third most important health disorder and in order of significance it is immediately after reproductive disorders and diseases of the mammary gland.
Trojačanec Plamen +2 more
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A within farm clinical trial to compare two treatments (parenteral antibacterials and hoof trimming) for sheep lame with footrot [PDF]
, 2010 From observational studies, farmers who use parenteral antibacterials to promptly treat all sheep with footrot (FR) or interdigital dermatitis (ID) have a prevalence of lameness of
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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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Animals, 2023 The New Zealand goat industry accesses niche markets for high-value products, mainly formula for infants and young children. This study aimed to estimate the genetic parameters of occurrence and susceptibility of clinical lameness and selected claw ...
Natasha Jaques +4 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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