Ruminant Population Health

Publications

Our research team and their collaborators have published a range of papers relating to our project ‘Furthering our understanding of the prevention and treatment of the lesions of claw horn disruption’. You can find links to them all here:

Newsome R, MJ Green, NJ Bell, NJ Bollard, CS Mason, HR Whay and JN Huxley (2017). “A prospective cohort study of digital cushion and corium thickness, Part 1: associations with body condition, lesion incidence and proximity to calving”. Journal of Dairy Science, 100: 4745-4758
Newsome R, MJ Green, NJ Bell, NJ Bollard, CS Mason, HR Whay and JN Huxley (2017). “A prospective cohort study of digital cushion and corium thickness, Part 2: does thinning of the digital cushion and corium lead to lameness and claw horn disruption lesions?”. Journal of Dairy Science, 100: 4759-4771
Miguel-Pacheco, GG, JN Huxley, HJ Thomas, R Newsome and J Kaler (2017). “ Effect of claw horn lesion type and severity at the time of treatment on outcome of lameness in dairy cows”. The Veterinary Journal, 225: 16-22.
Thomas HJ, JG Remnant, NJ Bollard, A Burrows, HR Whay, NJ Bell, C Mason and JN Huxley (2016). “Recovery of chronically lame dairy cows following treatment for claw horn lesions: A randomised controlled trial”. Veterinary Record, DOI: 10.1136/vr.103394. 
Randall LV, MJ Green, MGG Chagunda, C Mason, LE Green and JN Huxley (2016). “Lameness in dairy heifers; impacts of hoof lesions present around first calving on future lameness, milk yield and culling risk”. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 133: 52-63
Newsome R, MJ Green, NJ Bell, MGG Chagunda, CS Mason, CJ Sturrock, HR Whay and JN Huxley (2016). “Linking bone development on the caudal aspect of the distal phalanx with lameness during life”. Journal of Dairy Science, 99: 4512-4525. http://dx.doi.org/10.3168/jds.2015-10202 
Thomas HJ, GG Miguel-Pacheco, NJ Bollard, SC Archer, NJ Bell, C Mason, OJR Maxwell, JG Remnant, P Sleeman, HR Whay and JN Huxley (2015). “Evaluation of treatments for claw horn lesions in dairy cows in a randomized controlled trial”. Journal of Dairy Science, 98 (7): 4477-4486. DOI: 10.3168/jds.2014-8982
Randall LV, MJ Green, MGG Chagunda, C Mason, LE Green, SC Archer and JN Huxley (2015). “Low body condition predisposed cattle to lameness: An 8 year study of one dairy herd”. Journal of Dairy Science, 98 (6): 3766-3777. DOI: 10.3168/jds.2014-8863
Lim PY, JN Huxley, JA Willshire, MJ Green, AR Othman and J Kaler (2015). Unravelling the temporal association between lameness and body condition score in dairy cattle using a multistate modelling approach. Preventative Veterinary Medicine, 118 (4): 370-377. DOI:10.1016/j.prevetmed.2014.12.015
Green LE, JN Huxley, C Banks and MJ Green (2014). “Temporal associations between low body condition score, lameness and milk yield in a UK dairy herd”. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 113: 63-71; DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2013.10.009

Ruminant Population Health

School of Veterinary Medicine and Science
University of Nottingham
Sutton Bonington Campus
Leicestershire, LE12 5RD