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Research article2013Peer reviewedOpen access

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

Nielsen, Christel; Stengärde, Lena; Bergsten, Christer; Emanuelson, Ulf

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