Edwards-Callaway Lily N, Calvo-Lorenzo Michelle S, Scanga John A, Grandin Temple
Animal Welfare Specialist, Callalily Consulting LLC, 716 E Ridgecrest Road, Fort Collins, CO 80524, USA.
Elanco Animal Health, Division of Eli Lilly Company, 2500 Innovation Way, Greenfield, IN 46140, USA.
Vet Clin North Am Food Anim Pract. 2017 Jul;33(2):235-250. doi: 10.1016/j.cvfa.2017.02.006.
Lameness is among the most important welfare and production issues affecting dairy cattle. Recently, it has received significant research emphasis. Certain events in 2013 within the cattle industry heightened the focus on mobility issues in finished cattle. Scoring systems are needed in the finished cattle industry to capture and measure mobility issues at packing facilities. The North American Meat Institute Animal Welfare Committee helped facilitate the creation of a scoring system to evaluate mobility of cattle at packing plants, providing the cattle industry with a tool to benchmark and improve the welfare of finished cattle.
跛行是影响奶牛的最重要的福利和生产问题之一。最近，它受到了大量的研究关注。2013年养牛行业发生的某些事件加剧了对育肥牛移动性问题的关注。育肥牛行业需要评分系统来在屠宰场捕捉和衡量移动性问题。北美肉类协会动物福利委员会协助创建了一个评分系统，以评估屠宰场牛的移动性，为养牛行业提供了一个用以衡量和改善育肥牛福利的工具。
