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Factors Associated With Lameness in Tie Stall Housed Dairy Cows in South Germany
Lameness remains a major concern for animal welfare and productivity in modern dairy production. Even though a trend toward loose housing systems exists and the public expects livestock to be kept under conditions where freedom of movement and the expression of natural behavior are ensured, restrict...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7793746/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33426021 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2020.601640 |
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author | Oehm, Andreas W. Jensen, Katharina Charlotte Tautenhahn, Annegret Mueller, Kerstin-Elisabeth Feist, Melanie Merle, Roswitha |
author_facet | Oehm, Andreas W. Jensen, Katharina Charlotte Tautenhahn, Annegret Mueller, Kerstin-Elisabeth Feist, Melanie Merle, Roswitha |
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description | Lameness remains a major concern for animal welfare and productivity in modern dairy production. Even though a trend toward loose housing systems exists and the public expects livestock to be kept under conditions where freedom of movement and the expression of natural behavior are ensured, restrictive housing systems continue to be the predominant type of housing in some regions. Factors associated with lameness were evaluated by application of multiple logistic regression modeling on data of 1,006 dairy cows from 56 tie stall farms in Bavaria, South Germany. In this population, approximately every fourth cow was lame (24.44% of scored animals). The mean farm level prevalence of lameness was 23.28%. In total, 22 factors were analyzed regarding their association with lameness. A low Body Condition Score (BCS) (OR 1.54 [95%-CI 1.05–2.25]) as well as increasing parity (OR 1.41 [95%-CI 1.29–1.54]) entailed greater odds of lameness. Moreover, higher milk yield (OR 0.98 [95%-CI 0.96–1.00]) and organic farming (OR 0.48 [95%-0.25–0.92]) appeared to be protectively associated with lameness. Cows with hock injuries (OR 2.57 [95%-CI 1.41–4.67]) or with swellings of the ribs (OR 2.55 [95%-CI 1.53–4.23]) had higher odds of lameness. A similar association was observed for the contamination of the lower legs with distinct plaques of manure (OR 1.88 [95%-CI 1.14–3.10]). As a central aspect of tie stall housing, the length of the stalls was associated with lameness; with stalls of medium [(>158–171 cm) (OR 2.15 [95%-CI 1.29–3.58]) and short (≤158 cm) length (OR 4.07 [95%-CI 2.35–7.05]) increasing the odds compared with long stalls (>171 cm). These results can help both gaining knowledge on relevant factors associated with lameness as well as approaching the problem of dairy cow lameness in tie stall operations. |
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spelling | pubmed-77937462021-01-09 Factors Associated With Lameness in Tie Stall Housed Dairy Cows in South Germany Oehm, Andreas W. Jensen, Katharina Charlotte Tautenhahn, Annegret Mueller, Kerstin-Elisabeth Feist, Melanie Merle, Roswitha Front Vet Sci Veterinary Science Lameness remains a major concern for animal welfare and productivity in modern dairy production. Even though a trend toward loose housing systems exists and the public expects livestock to be kept under conditions where freedom of movement and the expression of natural behavior are ensured, restrictive housing systems continue to be the predominant type of housing in some regions. Factors associated with lameness were evaluated by application of multiple logistic regression modeling on data of 1,006 dairy cows from 56 tie stall farms in Bavaria, South Germany. In this population, approximately every fourth cow was lame (24.44% of scored animals). The mean farm level prevalence of lameness was 23.28%. In total, 22 factors were analyzed regarding their association with lameness. A low Body Condition Score (BCS) (OR 1.54 [95%-CI 1.05–2.25]) as well as increasing parity (OR 1.41 [95%-CI 1.29–1.54]) entailed greater odds of lameness. Moreover, higher milk yield (OR 0.98 [95%-CI 0.96–1.00]) and organic farming (OR 0.48 [95%-0.25–0.92]) appeared to be protectively associated with lameness. Cows with hock injuries (OR 2.57 [95%-CI 1.41–4.67]) or with swellings of the ribs (OR 2.55 [95%-CI 1.53–4.23]) had higher odds of lameness. A similar association was observed for the contamination of the lower legs with distinct plaques of manure (OR 1.88 [95%-CI 1.14–3.10]). As a central aspect of tie stall housing, the length of the stalls was associated with lameness; with stalls of medium [(>158–171 cm) (OR 2.15 [95%-CI 1.29–3.58]) and short (≤158 cm) length (OR 4.07 [95%-CI 2.35–7.05]) increasing the odds compared with long stalls (>171 cm). These results can help both gaining knowledge on relevant factors associated with lameness as well as approaching the problem of dairy cow lameness in tie stall operations. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-12-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7793746/ /pubmed/33426021 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2020.601640 Text en Copyright © 2020 Oehm, Jensen, Tautenhahn, Mueller, Feist and Merle. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Veterinary Science Oehm, Andreas W. Jensen, Katharina Charlotte Tautenhahn, Annegret Mueller, Kerstin-Elisabeth Feist, Melanie Merle, Roswitha Factors Associated With Lameness in Tie Stall Housed Dairy Cows in South Germany |
title | Factors Associated With Lameness in Tie Stall Housed Dairy Cows in South Germany |
title_full | Factors Associated With Lameness in Tie Stall Housed Dairy Cows in South Germany |
title_fullStr | Factors Associated With Lameness in Tie Stall Housed Dairy Cows in South Germany |
title_full_unstemmed | Factors Associated With Lameness in Tie Stall Housed Dairy Cows in South Germany |
title_short | Factors Associated With Lameness in Tie Stall Housed Dairy Cows in South Germany |
title_sort | factors associated with lameness in tie stall housed dairy cows in south germany |
topic | Veterinary Science |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7793746/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33426021 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2020.601640 |
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