Foot lesions in lame cows on 10 dairy farms in Ireland

Somers, Joris R; O’Grady, Luke

doi:10.1186/s13620-015-0039-0

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“…Foot disorders observed were mainly localized on the hind feet (73.8 %) and less frequently on the front feet (26.2 %), confirming similar results recently described by Somers and O’Grady [ 25 ] for dairy cows, where 11.8 and 89.6 % of the cows showed lesions recorded on front and hind feet, respectively.…”

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“…White line disorders are considered some of the most important causes of severe lameness in cows [ 32 ]. While 4.8 % of the MB with FDs showed signs of WLA (Table 2 ), the values observed were lower than those recently described for lame cows, where the prevalence of WLA ranged from 17.2 to 23.5 % [ 25 , 32 ].…”

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“…The most common FDs in dairy cows comprise: sole ulcers (SU), white line disease (WLD), digital dermatitis (DD) and interdigital necrobacillosis (interdigital phlegmon – IP) [ 24 , 25 ], while in MB, claw overgrowth (OG) and formation of corkscrew claws (CC) are the only claw disorders described until now [ 26 ]; no data are available about other type of FDs causing lameness.…”

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Assessment of foot health and animal welfare: clinical findings in 229 dairy Mediterranean Buffaloes (Bubalus bubalis) affected by foot disorders

Guccione

Carcasole²,

Alsaaod

et al. 2016

BMC Vet Res

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BackgroundLameness represents the third most important health-related cause of economic loss in the dairy industry after fertility and mastitis. Although, dairy Mediterranean Buffaloes (MB) and dairy cows share similar breeding systems predisposing to similar herd problems, published studies exploring its relevance and role in these ruminants are still rare and incomplete. The aims of this study were to describe the clinical findings of foot disorders (FDs) in dairy MB and their influence on animal welfare, determined by assessment of locomotion score (LS), body condition score (BCS) and cleanliness score (CS).ResultsOf 1297 multiparous MB submitted to routine trimming procedures, 229 buffaloes showed at least one FD. The prevalence of buffaloes affected by FDs was 17.7 %, while motility and lameness indexes were 84.1 % (1091/1297) and 15.9 % (206/1297), respectively. Overgrowth was present in 17.0 % (220/1297), corkscrew claw in 15.8 % (205/1297), interdigital phlegmon in 0.9 % (12/1297), white line abscess in 0.8 % (11/1297), digital dermatitis in 0.1 % (1/1297) and interdigital hyperplasia in 0.1 % (1/1297). Simultaneous presence of FDs was recorded in 17.0 % of MB (221/1297): overgrowth and corkscrew claw occurred together in 15.8 % of cases (205/1297), overgrowth and interdigital phlegmon in 0.3 % (4/1297), overgrowth and white line abscess in 0.8 % (11/1297), digital dermatitis and interdigital hyperplasia in 0.1 % (1/1297). The presence of FDs was always associated with lameness (LS > 2), except from 23 MB with simultaneous overgrowth and interdigital phlegmon occurrence. The majority of MB within the under-conditioned group (95.5 %, 43/45) and all those with CS > 2 (122/122) had a locomotion score above the threshold of normality (LS > 2). Furthermore, foot diseases such as interdigital hyperplasia, white line abscess and digital dermatitis or interdigital hyperplasia seemed to occur more frequently associated with decreased BCS and increased CS scores.ConclusionsThis study describes for the first time the involvement of white line disease, interdigital phlegmona, digital dermatitis and interdigital hyperplasia in foot disorders of dairy Mediterranean buffalo and shows their association with an impairment of animal welfare.

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Assessment of foot health and animal welfare: clinical findings in 229 dairy Mediterranean Buffaloes (Bubalus bubalis) affected by foot disorders

Guccione

Carcasole²,

Alsaaod

et al. 2016

BMC Vet Res

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“…Therefore, we recommend that on infected farms, New Zealand dairy farmers should undertake on-going monitoring of DD to assess the progress of the disease. Ideally, monitoring should occur multiple times during the season as part of routine foot health and lameness assessments [32]. However, if farmers can only conduct DD monitoring at a single time point, the model results suggest that late November to end of February would perhaps be the optimal time as the DD prevalence is likely to reach its peak during this period.…”

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Modelling the transmission dynamics of bovine digital dermatitis in New Zealand pastoral dairy production systems

Yang

Laven

Müller

et al. 2020

Vet Res

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Bovine digital dermatitis (DD) is an important infectious cause of cattle lameness worldwide that has become increasingly prevalent in New Zealand pastoral dairy herds. In this study, a simplified DD scoring system after considering both M and Iowa DD scoring systems was applied to explore the transmission dynamics of DD in a typical springcalving pastoral New Zealand dairy herd. The modified model only included three compartments: normal skin, early stage lesions and advanced lesions. Lesions regressing after treatment were excluded as DD lesions are rarely treated in New Zealand. Furthermore, sub-classes within each lesion class were not defined due to the lack of variability in DD lesion presentations within New Zealand. The model was validated based on longitudinal field data from three dairy herds in the Waikato region during one lactation season . The model suggested that in infected dairy herds, although DD prevalence will tend to increase year-on-year it is likely to remain relatively low (< 18%) even after 10 years of within-herd transmission. It is likely that the low transmission rate during the late lactation (model assumption) results in more cases resolving than developing during this period and therefore results in the low prevalence of infectious cattle at the start of each subsequent lactation. Cattle with advanced lesions had a stronger influence on the establishment and maintenance of DD than cattle with early stage lesions highlighting the importance of targeting these animals for intervention. On-going monitoring of DD is highly recommended to assess the long-term progression of the disease in affected dairy herds. © The Author(s) 2020. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article' s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article'

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“…Most recent studies on lameness showed very different statistics. In Irish dairy herds the lameness prevalence ranged from 9-17% (Somers and O'Grady 2015). In the UK, the estimated prevalence of lame and severely lame cows was 36.8% (Barker et al 2010).…”

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Study on the major welfare problems of dairy cows from the Galicia region (NW Spain)

Bugueiro

Pedreira²,

Dieguez

2018

JABB

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The aim of the present paper was to evaluate the dairy cattle welfare in a population from the Galicia region (NW Spain) according to the Welfare Quality ® protocol guidelines. For this purpose, 37 dairy farms were randomly selected. The on-farm welfare was evaluated according to Welfare Quality ® guidelines. At principle level, the categorical classification indicated that regarding "good feeding" 5.4% (0%-13.1%) of the farms were classified as "excellent", 29.7% (14.3%-45.3%) "enhanced", 48.6% (31.7%-65.5%) "acceptable" and 16.2% (3.8%-28.7%) "not classified". As regards "good housing", 5.4% (0%-13.1%) were classified as "excellent", 64.9% (48.7%-81.0%) "enhanced" and 29.7% (14.3%-45.2%) "acceptable". 100% (100%-100%) were considered "acceptable" for the "good health" principle. Finally, for "appropriate behaviour" 2.7% (0-8.2%) was classified as "enhanced", 13.5% (1.9%-25.1%) "acceptable" and 83.8% (71.3%-96.2%) "not classified". Overall, according to the Welfare Quality ® protocol 94.6% (86.5%-100%) farms were classified as "acceptable", 2.7% (0-8.2%) as "enhanced" and 2.7% (0-8.2%) "not classified". In conclusion, farms from Galicia could only be considered as "acceptable" in terms of animal welfare, presenting many areas for improvement. The principle scored at its lowest has been "appropriate behaviour", presenting it as an issue not properly taken into the farmer consideration. Another warning aspect is the management of disease, marked on a bad score for "good health": As it seems, farmers should include new health-control plans providing better prevention of disease, and include anaesthetic and analgesic plans for dehorning.

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Foot lesions in lame cows on 10 dairy farms in Ireland

Cited by 27 publications

References 19 publications

Assessment of foot health and animal welfare: clinical findings in 229 dairy Mediterranean Buffaloes (Bubalus bubalis) affected by foot disorders

Assessment of foot health and animal welfare: clinical findings in 229 dairy Mediterranean Buffaloes (Bubalus bubalis) affected by foot disorders

Modelling the transmission dynamics of bovine digital dermatitis in New Zealand pastoral dairy production systems

Study on the major welfare problems of dairy cows from the Galicia region (NW Spain)

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