Relationship between herd-level incidence rate of energy-related postpartum diseases, general risk factors and claw lesions in individual dairy cows recorded at maintenance claw trimming

Abstract

Conclusions: Only a few statistically significant associations were found, but several tendencies pointed towards better claw health in herds with low as compared with high incidence rate of energy-related postpartum diseases.

Keywords

Dairy cow; Energy-related metabolic diseases; Claw trimming; Claw lesions; Risk factors

Published in

Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica
2013, volume: 55
Publisher: BIOMED CENTRAL LTD

SLU Authors

• Nielsen, Christel

  • Department of Clinical Sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Stengärde, Lena

  • Department of Clinical Sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Bergsten, Christer

  • Department of Biosystems and Technology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Emanuelson, Ulf

  • Department of Clinical Sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

UKÄ Subject classification

Clinical Science

Publication identifier

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1751-0147-55-55

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/52244