The Effects of Season and Stage of Lactation on Lameness in 900 Dairy Cows

The results of this study demonstrated that white line disease was almost halved in cattle supplemented with biotin (Hedges et al, 2001) and that this reduction had most impact in cattle above parity three which had been supplemented with oral biotin for at least six months (Poetzch et al., 2003). This intervention study also provided a unique opportunity to collect accurate information on the timing and causes of lameness in the 900 cows that were monitored for 18 months from five herds in Gloucestershire ...