Risk factors for lameness in cubicle housed Austrian Simmental dairy cows

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 90, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 102-112

  Dippel, Sabine ^a   Dolezal, Marlies ^a,d   Brenninkmeyer, Christine ^b   Brinkmann, Jan ^c   March, Solveig ^c   Knierim, Ute ^b   Winckler, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Dairy cows; Generalised estimating equations; Housing; Lameness; Lying behaviour; Management; Simmental

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL LAMENESS; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; CATTLE; DAIRYING; FEMALE; METHODOLOGY; PREVALENCE; RISK; RISK FACTOR; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL WELFARE; ANIMALS; AUSTRIA; CATTLE; DAIRYING; FEMALE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; LAMENESS, ANIMAL; LOGISTIC MODELS; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; BOS;

EID: 67349237474     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2009.03.014     Document Type: Article

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