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Associations between sole ulcer, white line disease and digital dermatitis and the milk yield of 1824 dairy cows on 30 dairy cow farms in England and Wales from February 2003–November 2004
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Amory, J. R., Barker, Z. E., Wright, Jordan L., Mason, Sam (Sam A.), Blowey, R. W. and Green, Laura E. (2008) Associations between sole ulcer, white line disease and digital dermatitis and the milk yield of 1824 dairy cows on 30 dairy cow farms in England and Wales from February 2003–November 2004. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Vol.83 (No.3-4). pp. 381-391. doi:10.1016/j.prevetmed.2007.09.007 ISSN 0167-5877.
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Abstract
The milk yields of 1824 cows were used to investigate the effect of lesion-specific causes of lameness, based on farmer treatment and diagnosis of lame cows, on milk yield. A three level hierarchical model of repeated test day yields within cows within herds was used to investigate the impact of lesion-specific causes of lameness (sole ulcer, white line disease, digital dermatitis and other causes) on milk yield before and after treatment compared with unaffected cows. Cattle which developed sole ulcer (SU) and white line disease (WLD) were higher yielding cattle before they were diagnosed. Their milk production fell to below that of the mean of unaffected cows before diagnosis and remained low after diagnosis. In cattle which developed digital dermatitis (DD) there was no significant difference in milk yield before treatment and a slightly raised milk yield immediately after treatment. The estimated milk loss attributable to SU and WLD was approximately 570kg and 370kg respectively. These results highlight that specific types of lameness vary by herds and within herds they are associated with higher yielding cattle. Consequently lesion-specific lameness reduction programmes targeting the cow and farm specific causes of lameness might be more effective than generic recommendations. They also highlight the importance of milk loss when estimating the economic impact of SU and WLD on the farms profitability.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | S Agriculture > SF Animal culture Q Science > QL Zoology |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Life Sciences (2010- ) > Biological Sciences ( -2010) | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Dairy cattle, Lameness in cattle, Milk yield | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Preventive Veterinary Medicine | ||||
Publisher: | Elsevier | ||||
ISSN: | 0167-5877 | ||||
Official Date: | 17 March 2008 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.83 | ||||
Number: | No.3-4 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 381-391 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2007.09.007 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||
Description: | Version accepted by publisher (post-print, after peer review, before copy-editing). |
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Funder: | Fifth Framework Programme (European Commission) (FP5) | ||||
Grant number: | LAMECOW OLRT-2001-00969 |
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