Lameness: Continue monitoring and fast action

Creating a ‘lameness advocate’ who is tasked with monitoring and identifying lameness is key to successfully driving out the condition from dairy herds, according to an expert in the disease. Digital dermatitis (lameness) is widespread in dairy cows kept in loose housing systems and represents one of the three major causes for early culling. Highly infectious, digital dermatitis usually affects the skin on the bulbs of the heel. It is caused by contact with slurry, and is more prevalent in