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Pressure Distribution of Claws of Lactating Cows Standing on Different Types of Flooring

Published: May 24, 2017
Summary
Introduction The incidence of lameness is so high in many dairy herds that treatment of all lame cows is not feasible (Horseman et al., 2013). Because soft barn flooring may alleviate the problem of claw horn lesions, we conducted a study to measure the ground reaction forces and pressure distribution in claws on 4 different surfaces.   Materials and Methods Using a force pl...
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Authors:
Karl Nuss
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Hassan Khan
29 de mayo de 2017

Interesting article where in pressure distribution of claws of 12 lactating cows standing different surfaces have been studied.

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