hoof health

Competition among dairy cattle for feed space may cause stress, production losses and health issues. Photo: Herbert Wiggerman
21-03-2022 | Article

How do cows perform under different housing systems?

Digital dermatitis: Treating cows with ketoprofen
17-03-2022 | News

Digital dermatitis: Treating cows with ketoprofen

Although the vast majority of farmers were implementing preventive trimming, there was a large variation in terms of when this was undertaken both in terms of frequency and also its timing within the management cycle. Photo: Henk Riswick
16-02-2022 | Expert opinion

Research: What do farmers want to know about hoof trimming?

Visual lameness scoring is the most common method to evaluate lameness, as it is easy to use and cheap to implement, but it is time-consuming and labour-intensive. Photo: Shutterstock
01-12-2021 | Article

Automatic lameness detection: Lame vs sound gait

Not all farms are the same. This aspect should not be overlooked by trimmers. Photo: Mark Pasveer
22-11-2021 | Article

What you need to know about hoof over-trimming in dairy cows

Teamwork is vital to help reduce lameness on a farm, and this includes the trimmer. Photo: Sara Pedersen
03-11-2021 | Expert opinion

Keeping up-to-date with lameness and foot trimming

Barriers to lameness management: What still needs to happen?
28-09-2021 | Expert opinion

Barriers to lameness management: What still needs to happen?

Despite the implications for dairy cow welfare and productivity and the significant economic implications for dairy farmers, many dairy farmers fail to see lameness as a serious threat to their business. Photo: Ronald Hissink
26-02-2021 | Article

How farmer perceptions and automation impact lameness

Cows trimmed during the last 4 weeks before the end of gestation had a 2.4 times higher chance of abortion. Photo: Koos Groenewold
23-02-2021 | News

Late gestation hoof trimming increases abortion risk

The ideal times to trim would be once at dry-off and again around 100 days in milk. Photo: Koos Groenewold
22-02-2021 | Article

Lameness: A look at fertility, milk production and control