Impact of Calving Difficulty on Lameness in Dairy Cows

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dc.authoridAntanaitis, Ramunas/0000-0002-9993-2224
dc.authoridJuozaitiene, Vida/0000-0002-9777-8243
dc.authoridTelevicius, Mindaugas/0000-0001-8572-2616
dc.authoridBaumgartner, walter/0000-0001-7366-7242
dc.contributor.authorMalasauskiene, Dovile
dc.contributor.authorAntanaitis, Ramunas
dc.contributor.authorJuozaitiene, Vida
dc.contributor.authorPaulauskas, Algimantas
dc.contributor.authorUrbonavicius, Gediminas
dc.contributor.authorTelevicius, Mindaugas
dc.contributor.authorUrbutis, Mingaudas
dc.date.accessioned2024-12-24T19:33:29Z
dc.date.available2024-12-24T19:33:29Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.departmentSiirt Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractThe aims of our study were to evaluate the associations between calving difficulty and lameness and their effects on milk yield and quality traits. A total of 4723 calving cases were evaluated for calving difficulty using a 4-point scoring system. Lameness was diagnosed with a visual locomotion score system from 1 to 30 days after calving in 333 fresh dairy cows. Cows were divided into non-lame cows and lame cows. Milk quality traits were registered using Lely Astronaut (R) A3 milking robots. The normal distribution of all indicators was assessed using the Shapiro-Wilk normality test. Normally distributed milk indicators were expressed as mean +/- standard error of the mean. Differences between the mean values of their groups were determined using the Fisher's least significant difference test. We categorized cows by health status, i.e., lame (LA) and non-lame (HL) cows, and according to calving difficulty (CD) (on a 4-point scale: 1-no problem, 2-slight problem, 3-problems requiring assistance, 4-considerable force and extreme difficulty). In the present study, calving difficulty increased the risk of lameness in cows by 2.09-fold (95% CI = 1.644-2.650, p < 0.001). It was found that the mean standard milk yield in fresh dairy cows with calving difficulty was lower (-6.14 kg, p < 0.001) than in the group where no assistance was required at calving. Similarly, herd affected milk fat (%) and the calving process-herd and the interaction between calving difficulty and herd-and lameness impacted the quantity of milk protein and lactose in cows. We found that severe lameness (3-4 points) (3.88-5.92% of cows) became more prevalent in those cows that had dystocia than those that did not (0.27-2.37% of cows).
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/agriculture12070960
dc.identifier.issn2077-0472
dc.identifier.issue7
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85133669150
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture12070960
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12604/8161
dc.identifier.volume12
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000833732700001
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ1
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherMdpi
dc.relation.ispartofAgriculture-Basel
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.snmzKA_20241222
dc.subjectcalving difficulty
dc.subjectfresh dairy cows
dc.subjectlameness
dc.subjectmilk composition
dc.titleImpact of Calving Difficulty on Lameness in Dairy Cows
dc.typeArticle

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