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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