Bovine digital dermatitis (DD) is a severe infectious disease causing lameness in dairy cattle
worldwide and is an important ruminant welfare problem that has considerable economic …

The first article to describe the macroscopic appearance of a large number of DD lesions
was done on 10 California dairies by Read and Walker in 1998. 1 A majority of the lesions …

The objectives of this cross-sectional study were to determine the prevalence and
distribution of foot lesions and associated cow-and herd-level risk factors in dairy cows in …

Foot disorders are an important health problem in dairy cattle, in terms of economics and
animal welfare. The incidence, severity, and duration of foot disorders account for their …

To investigate the association between locomotion score and types of hoof lesion, cows from
91 selected dairy herds in southern Chile were studied. The locomotion score was recorded …

Lameness is one of the most significant endemic disease problems facing the dairy industry.
Claw horn lesions (principally sole hemorrhage, sole ulcer, and white line disease) are …

Infrared thermography (IRT) was used to detect digital dermatitis (DD) prior to routine claw
trimming. A total of 1192 IRT observations were collected from 149 cows on eight farms. All …

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 …

This study was part of a cross-sectional project on freestall housing, and the aim was to
compare locomotion and claw disorders in freestall dairy cattle herds with slatted concrete …

Locomotion scoring, lying behaviour and lesion recording during hoof trimming are all ways
of evaluating hoof health in dairy cows. The objective of this study was to evaluate the …