EAR AND TAIL LESIONS ON CAPTIVE WHITE-TAILED DEER FAWNS (<i>ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS</i>): A CASE STUDY

Ferguson, Treena L.; Demarais, Stephen; Cooley, Jim; Fleming, Sherrill; Michel, Eric; Flinn, Emily Brooke

doi:10.1638/2015-0140.1

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“…It is associated with slatted flooring systems (Schrader et al, 2001;Madsen and Nielsen, 1985;Drolia et al, 1990) or feeding high-energy ratios (Kordowitzki, 2015) as subacute ruminal acidosis triggers the onset of systemic inflammation, especially within the acra (Abdela, 2016). However, tail tip inflammation is reported to appear in many other species as well, such as buffalo (Barakat et al, 1960), rodents (Crippa et al, 2000;Recordati et al, 2015), cats (Bridle and Littlewood, 1998), deer (Ferguson et al, 2016), or pigs (Reiner et al, 2021). The consensus for all species regarding tail lesions is that the pathogenesis is not fully understood yet.…”

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A pilot study: tail tip lesions in dairy cows – an unnoticed animal welfare issue?

Kremer-Rücker,

Abel,

Lorenz

et al. 2024

Arch. Anim. Breed.

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Abstract. The welfare of dairy cows is becoming increasingly important. While diseases like mastitis and lameness are common ailments, injuries to the tail tip go largely unnoticed. This study aimed to investigate whether tail tip lesions, which are mostly described in beef cattle, also occurred on n=5 dairy farms, along with determining what type and at what frequency. The study consisted of two phases. During the first part of the study, tail tips of 78 dairy cows were examined over a period of 6 months; based on these results, we developed a training card on tail tip lesions in dairy cows, which was used in part two of the study to train further examiners to inspect four more flocks. In total, we collected n=3587 tail records from n=513 Holstein and n= 128 Simmental dairy cows. The overall frequency regarding all types of lesions ranged between 84.0 % (±2.0) and 94.1 % (±1.8) in Holstein herds and between 97.0 % (±2.2) and 99.0 % (±2.2) in Simmental herds. To our knowledge, this is the first investigation of tail tip lesions in German dairy cows. We concluded that tail tip lesions might be a frequent yet unnoticed condition in German dairy cows.

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A pilot study: tail tip lesions in dairy cows – an unnoticed animal welfare issue?

Kremer-Rücker,

Abel,

Lorenz

et al. 2024

Arch. Anim. Breed.

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The Animal Welfare Act and the Conduct and Publishing of Wildlife Research in the United States

Mulcahy

2017

ILAR Journal

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In the US, the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) and its enabling regulations (AWAR) cover all warm-blooded animals used for research, testing, experimentation, or exhibition. The only exceptions, made in the enabling regulations, are for two genera of rodents and for birds, bred specifically for research (meaning even those exceptions do not apply to wild birds and wild rodents of those genera) and for farm and agricultural animals. Research using animals covered by the AWA and AWAR must be reviewed and approved by an Animal Care and Use Committee (ACUC) properly constituted according to AWA and AWAR. A review of Instructions to Authors and policy statements offered by 106 journals classified by their content as containing articles that were oriented largely toward disease, ecology, or general, showed that disease-oriented journals originating in the United States and those produced by professional societies and government agencies have a higher explicit requirement for ACUC review than do disease-oriented journals produced outside the United States or those produced commercially. Journals with a general orientation that are produced outside the United States or commercially had much higher rates of requiring explicit statements for ACUC review than generally-oriented journals produced in the United States or those produced by professional societies and government agencies. Ecology journals had low rates of explicit statements for ACUC review regardless of geographic origins or sources.

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EAR AND TAIL LESIONS ON CAPTIVE WHITE-TAILED DEER FAWNS (ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS): A CASE STUDY

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A pilot study: tail tip lesions in dairy cows – an unnoticed animal welfare issue?

A pilot study: tail tip lesions in dairy cows – an unnoticed animal welfare issue?

The Animal Welfare Act and the Conduct and Publishing of Wildlife Research in the United States

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