Evaluation of the efficacy of prophylactic hoof health examination and trimming during midlactation in reducing the incidence of lameness during late lactation in dairy cows

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 230, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 89-93

  Hernandez, Jorge A ^a   Garbarino, Eduardo J ^a   Shearer, Jan K ^a   Risco, Carlos A ^a   Thatcher, William W ^b  

^a University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HEALTH; ANIMAL LAMENESS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAIRY CATTLE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HERD; HOOF AND CLAW; INCIDENCE; LACTATION; LOCOMOTION; MONITORING; NONHUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PROPHYLAXIS; RANDOMIZATION; WELLBEING;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DAIRYING; FEMALE; FOOT DISEASES; HOOF AND CLAW; LACTATION; LAMENESS, ANIMAL; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIMARY PREVENTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33845992920     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.230.1.89     Document Type: Article

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