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- Breeding & Genetics
- Environment
- Health & Welfare
- Grass & Forage
- Nutrition
- Production Systems
- Completed Projects
- Across breed evaluations
- All weather cow tracks
- Calving Ease
- Crop Protection Priorities for forage and feed crops in light of proposed EU pesticide regulations and other changes
- DairyCo mobility score
- Desktop review of Greenhouse Gases
- Expanding Indices
- GR Micro test for ParaTB (08/09)
- Human resources templates
- Impact of bio-fuels on dairy feeding
- Labour efficiency report
- Labour productivity
- LINK Woodchip pads
- LISA Lupins
- Minimising slurry pooling in dairy housing
- Modelling of Greenhouse Gases
- Muck and Slurry on Clover swards
- Muscling on Holsteins
- Near Infra-Red Spectroscopy (NIRS) tests for farmyard manures
- Opportunites for new forage species
- Outwintering systems based on forage brassicas for replacement dairy heifers
- Para TB Tools
- Rearing options for Holstein bull calves to 12 weeks
- Reduce methane & nitrogen emission (Defra AC0209)
- Reducing heifer wastage in the dairy herd
- Reducing lameness in dairy cattle
- Ruminant nutrition regimes to reduce methane and nitrogen emissions
- Soil stabilisation
- Technology and your business
- Treatment and prevention of foot lameness in cattle
- Advisory Groups
- Research and Development Advisory Forum
- Forum Members
Treatment and prevention of foot lameness in cattle
A review of the peer reviewed literature on the treatment and prevention of foot lameness in cattle published between 2000 and 2011.
Anticipated deliverables for dairy farmers
This lameness review provides a summary that focuses on treatment and prevention aspects of lameness with the aim of producing a peer reviewed paper and comprehensive reference database.
This work identified gaps in the current research on treatment of lameness (particularly white line disease) and prevention of lameness. Other areas identified as a current gap where 'screening for lameness using different methods of detection' plus a study of 'relationship over time of different lesions causing lameness and inciting risk factors'.
This review of papers has fed into the mobility aspects of the Health and Welfare Research Partnership which is led by the University of Nottingham (partnering Harper Adams University College, Royal Veterinary College, Bristol University, Scottish Agricultural College, and University of Aberystwyth (IBERS)). This means that as results from this work are generated, the findings will be incorporated into the DairyCo Healthy Feet Programme and the resources which sit as part of the programme.
To download a copy of the report please click here.