Short communication: Herd-level reproductive performance and its relationship with lameness and leg injuries in freestall dairy herds in the northeastern United States

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 96, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 7066-7072

  Chapinal, N ^a   von Keyserlingk, M A G ^a   Cerri, R L A ^a   Ito, K ^a,b   LeBlanc, S J ^c   Weary, D M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b NOVUS INTERNATIONAL INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cow comfort; Fertility; Gait; Skin lesion

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BED; BOVINE; CATTLE DISEASE; DAIRYING; FEMALE; GAIT; HINDLIMB; INJURIES; LACTATION; LAMENESS, ANIMAL; LEG; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; REPRODUCTION; UNITED STATES; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; BEDDING AND LINENS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DAIRYING; FEMALE; GAIT; HOUSING, ANIMAL; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; LACTATION; LAMENESS, ANIMAL; LOWER EXTREMITY; NEW ENGLAND; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; REPRODUCTION; TARSUS, ANIMAL;

EID: 84886291102     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: 15253198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.2013-6967     Document Type: Article

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