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Mobility Scoring
Regular mobility scoring allows realistic assessments of herd-level lameness to be made and provides the basis for lameness eradication. Recent studies at Nottingham Vet School have demonstrated that approximately 25% of UK dairy cattle are lame on any single day of assessment. This represents a significant welfare problem and massive potential to increase profits.
This Farming Note looks at:
- Why you would mobility score
- The financial gains
- Cow signal comparisons between lame and healthy animals
- The practicalities of mobility scoring
Issued May 2015
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