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A study of feet lesions and locomotion scores in four crossbred ewe types
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 November 2017
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Lameness is a major economic and welfare issue for the sheep industry in the UK and Ireland. It has been estimated that footrot costs the UK sheep industry £24 million per year (Nieuwhof and Bishop, 2005). Although a feet lesion scoring system in sheep has been devised to monitor lameness, it is a time-consuming process. Locomotion scoring is well established in dairy cattle to record the incidence of lameness, but needs validation within sheep. The primary aim of the present study was to investigate the association between locomotion score and the level and pattern of feet lesion scores in sheep. There is some evidence that there are differences in susceptibility to lameness between breeds. Therefore, a secondary aim of the study was to investigate feet lesions and locomotion in four crossbred genotype ewes.
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