“…In veterinary medicine, IRT has been successfully used in various applications such as for the detection of bovine viral diarrhoea (Schaefer et al, 2004), bovine respiratory disease (Schaefer et al, 2007(Schaefer et al, , 2012, foot-and-mouth disease (RainwaterLovett et al, 2009), bluetongue (Pérez de Diego et al, 2013 and clinical mastitis (Hovinen et al, 2008;Polat et al, 2010;Martins et al, 2013) and to test for detection of oestrus in dairy cows (Talukder et al, 2014b). Infrared thermography has also been applied to diagnose hoof and foot lesions in horses and cattle (Alsaaod and Büscher, 2012;Main et al, 2012;Stokes et al, 2012;Alsaaod et al, 2014). It has been reported the IRT is able to detect circadian changes of foot temperature in sheep (D'Alterio et al, 2011) and that it can measure differences between hooves temperature of healthy and footrot affected herds (Lehugeur, 2012), however in the same study, Lehugeur was not able to detect difference in temperature of different foot scores.…”