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Lameness on New Zealand Dairy Farms: Perception and Reality
R.A. Laven
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Worldwide, lameness is considered to be the third most costly animal health problem after infertility and mastitis. Most research on lameness has focused on the housed cow – this is logical as housing tends to increase the prevalence of lameness and, particularly in the US, Canada and parts of Europe, more cows are being housed permanently and access to pasture is being reduced in those cows which are not housed all-year-round.
Extrapolation of such data to pasture-based systems, such as those which predominate in New Zealand, may not be warranted, as many of the risk factors which have been associated with lameness in Northern Hemisphere cattle are not present on most New Zealand dairy farms – this includes such obvious factors as poor cubicle design, and less obvious factors such as higher ...
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