Temporal associations between low body condition, lameness and milk yield in a UK dairy herd

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 63-71

  Green, L E ^a   Huxley, J N ^b   Banks, C ^b   Green, M J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body condition score; Dairy cow; Lameness; MCMC parameterisation; Milk yield; Mixed effect binomial model

Indexed keywords

BOS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL LAMENESS; ARTICLE; BODY CONDITION SCORE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; DAIRY CATTLE; DIGITAL DERMATITIS; FEMALE; FOOT DISEASE; LAMENESS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MCMC PARAMETERISATION; MILK; MILK YIELD; MIXED EFFECT BINOMIAL MODEL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEASON; SECRETION (PROCESS); STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED KINGDOM;

BODY CONDITION SCORE; DAIRY COW; LAMENESS; MCMC PARAMETERISATION; MILK YIELD; MIXED EFFECT BINOMIAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DIGITAL DERMATITIS; FEMALE; FOOT DISEASES; GREAT BRITAIN; LAMENESS, ANIMAL; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MILK; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEASONS;

EID: 84888200952     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2013.10.009     Document Type: Article

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