Automatic lameness detection: Lame vs sound gait

Farmers visually recognise only a third of the cows in their herd that are assessed as severely lame cows by researchers. Automated lameness detection methods with high sensitivity for early lameness may offer a way to identify lameness more accurately in intensive dairy production systems. Lameness is an important health and welfare issue that causes considerable economic losses because of additional labour, repeated treatments, euthanasia, early culling and (re)production losses in the dair