Hock lesion epidemiology in cubicle housed dairy cows across two breeds, farming systems and countries

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 109, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 236-245

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Dairy cattle; Free stalls; Injury; Lameness; Simmental; Swelling

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FOOT DISEASE; GERMANY; HINDLIMB; PATHOLOGY; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STANDARD;

ANIMALS; AUSTRIA; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOOT DISEASES; GERMANY; HOUSING, ANIMAL; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TARSUS, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; BOS; FRIESIA;

EID: 84875395034     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2012.10.014     Document Type: Article

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