Objective determination of claw pain and its relationship to limb locomotion score in dairy cattle

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 90, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 4592-4602

  Dyer, R M ^a   Neerchal, N K ^b   Tasch, U ^c   Wu, Y ^a   Dyer, P ^b   Rajkondawar, P G ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^c University of Marylandw Baltimore County   (United States)

^d BouMatic   (United States)

Author keywords

Claw pain; Lameness; Locomotion score; Objective pain determination

Indexed keywords

BOS;

EID: 35748979702     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: 15253198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.2007-0006     Document Type: Article

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