Recovery of chronically lame dairy cows following treatment for claw horn lesions: a randomised controlled trial
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Recovery of chronically lame dairy cows following treatment for claw horn lesions: a randomised controlled trial.
A positively controlled, randomised controlled trial (RCT) was undertaken to test recovery of cows with claw horn lesions resulting in lameness of greater than two weeks duration. Cows on seven commercial farms were mobility scored fortnightly and selected by lameness severity and chronicity. Study cows all received a therapeutic trim then random allocation of: no further treatment (trim only (...
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عنوان ژورنال: Veterinary Record
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0042-4900
DOI: 10.1136/vr.103394