Working together to reduce cattle lameness

At our recent farmer meeting with Neil Chesterton we had many requests for Neil's "milking shed rules" and his "12 cow behaviours". Neil Has kindly posted them on his website, which can be found by following this link

Neil's link

Economics of lameness - this was a paper delivered by Jim Willshire MRCVS at the BCVA congress 2009.

Jim's presentation

The cost calculator to accompany this presentation is available below:

prp1046.pdf Lameness Cost Calc v1.612.xls

The following recording on "A systematic approach to lameness" was also launched at BCVA congress, kindly sponsored by Pfizer Animal Health:

A systematic approach to lameness

NADIS are coordinating the delivery of the lameness training module to various regions in the UK. We were keen to acknowledge all authors and sources of information, as citing all sources of evidence was beyond the remit of the bulletins. Hence we will post the fully referenced versions of the bulletins below shortly.

NADIS lameness module