To prevent financial losses and welfare problems, early and accurate lameness detection and treatment is essential. - Photo: Penn Communicatie
Lameness is an important swine health and welfare concern which causes considerable economic losses due to additional labour, repeated treatments, euthanasia, early culling and (re)production losses. It is estimated that up to 48% of sows in a given farm are lame and lameness costs the U.S. swine industry approximately $ 230 million/year. Although lameness is a prevalent condition in swine production systems, its identification can be unreliable due to lack of individual pig observation for g
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