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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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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.
A. Mohsina +7 more
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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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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 automatic methods using suitable sensors would improve efficiency and reliability.
Aman Shrestha +9 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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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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Animals, 2017 Dairy cow welfare is an important consideration for optimal production in the dairy industry. Lameness affects the welfare of dairy herds by limiting productivity.
Mohammed B. Sadiq +4 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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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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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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