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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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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
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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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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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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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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 ...
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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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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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