Lameness in Dairy Cattle: A Debilitating Disease or a Disease of Debilitated Cattle?
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A growing concern of the dairy industry is to increase dairy cattle wellbeing in anticipation of a demand from the general public of welfare-certified dairy products. Lameness is one of the most important welfare issues of high producing dairy cows in North America (Vermunt, 2007). It is a debilitating condition that challenges sustainability of production systems used in North America because of the pain and subsequent animal welfare consequences (Vermunt, 2007) and also the significant economic losses (Warnick et al., 2001). A study conducted in England concluded that lameness was the second most costly disease in the dairy industry following only mastitis (Kossaibati and Esslemont, 1997).
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