Assessing the repeatability and reproducibility of the Leg Score: A Dutch Claw Health Scoring System for dairy cattle

Tijdschrift voor Diergeneeskunde

Volumn 130, Issue 14-15, 2005, Pages 440-443

  Holzhauer, M ^a   Middelesch, H ^a   Bartels, C J M ^a   Frankena, K ^b   Verhoeff, J ^a   Noordhuizen Stassen, E N ^c   Noordhuizen, J P T M ^c  

^a GD Ltd   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL LAMENESS; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; DAIRYING; FEMALE; FOOT DISEASE; HOOF AND CLAW; HOSPITALIZATION; METHODOLOGY; NETHERLANDS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DAIRYING; FEMALE; FOOT DISEASES; HOOF AND CLAW; LAMENESS, ANIMAL; NETHERLANDS; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

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EID: 24044525937     PISSN: 00407453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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