Injuries to Scottish farmers while tagging and clipping cattle: a cross-sectional survey

Abstract

Tagging calves and clipping cattle prior to slaughter are associated with a significant risk of injury, which may be severe, necessitating treatment and time lost from work. Policy makers, safety advisers and the farming community should reconsider whether these procedures are necessary and whether current guidelines should be modified in order to improve safety.

Relationship between maternal defensive aggression, fear of handling and other maternal care traits in beef cows

“…These mortality figures give no indication of the extent of unreported non-fatal injuries, which is likely to be high (Lindsay et al, 2004). Importantly, whilst there has been a gradual reduction in fatal agricultural accidents in recent decades, no such decline can be detected in the HSE statistics in the number of incidents resulting from maternal defensive aggression in cattle.…”

Child Abdominal Trauma Due to Attack of Cattles While Working on Farms in Burkina Faso

“…We noted a mortality of 3%. In the West, mortality is almost zero [4] [12]. This difference is firstly due to the location of the lesions in our context.…”

Health effects of livestock farming in Europe

“…In a cross-sectional study of Scottish cattle farmers, the prevalence of history of selfreported injuries while tagging calves and clipping cows was calculated at 24%, mostly bruises. Risk factors were younger age, beef farming (vs dairy farming) and full-time farming or farm ownership (Lindsay et al 2004). In another study of dairy farmers, milking over 30 h was associated with an up to 20-fold increased risk for injury and trimming/treating hooves with a fourfold increased risk (Boyle et al 1997).…”

“…Having large numbers of livestock, use of hearing aids, medically diagnosed with arthritis and taking medications on a regular basis have also been significantly associated with increased risk of animal-related injury (Sprince et al 2003). Also, specific activities, such as milking over 30 h/week, trimming or treating hooves and tagging and clipping the animals, have been associated with increased risk of animal-related injuries (Boyle et al 1997;Lindsay et al 2004).…”