Evaluation of the performance of register data as indicators for dairy herds with high lameness prevalence

Abstract Background The modern dairy industry routinely generates data on production and disease. Therefore, the use of these cheap and at times even “free” data to predict a given state of welfare in a cost-effective manner is evaluated in the present study. Such register data could potentially be...

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Main Authors: Nina Dam Otten, Nils Toft, Peter Thorup Thomsen, Hans Houe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-10-01
Series:Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica
Subjects:
ROC
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13028-019-0484-y