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The effect of paratuberculosis on milk yield—a systematic review and meta-analysis (2015)
Journal Article

Bovine paratuberculosis is a disease characterized by chronic granulomatous enteritis causing protein-losing enteropathy. Adverse effects on animal productivity are key drivers in the attempt to control paratuberculosis at the farm level. Economic mo... Read More about The effect of paratuberculosis on milk yield—a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Test-retest reliability and predictive validity of a juvenile guide dog behavior test (2015)
Journal Article

The ability to measure stable and consistent behavioral traits in dogs would facilitate selection and assessment of working dogs, such as guide dogs. Ideally, these measures should predict suitability for the working role from a young age. This study... Read More about Test-retest reliability and predictive validity of a juvenile guide dog behavior test.

Using the incidence and impact of health conditions in guide dogs to investigate healthy ageing in working dogs (2015)
Journal Article

This study aimed to use retirement data from working guide dogs to investigate healthy ageing in dogs and the demographic factors that influence ageing. Using a dataset of 7686 dogs spanning 20 years, dogs withdrawn for health reasons before they rea... Read More about Using the incidence and impact of health conditions in guide dogs to investigate healthy ageing in working dogs.

Molecular epidemiology of Streptococcus uberis clinical mastitis in dairy herds: strain heterogeneity and transmission (2015)
Journal Article

Multi Locus Sequence Typing was successfully completed on 494 isolates of S. uberis from clinical mastitis cases in a study of 52 commercial dairy herds over a 12 month period. In total, 195 sequence types (STs) were identified. S. uberis mastitis ca... Read More about Molecular epidemiology of Streptococcus uberis clinical mastitis in dairy herds: strain heterogeneity and transmission.

Evaluation of the usefulness at national level of the dairy cattle health and production recording systems in Great Britain (2015)
Journal Article

The aim of this study was to formally evaluate, qualitatively, the ability of existing recording systems to generate accurate and reliable estimates of the frequency of selected health conditions in the dairy herd of Great Britain. Fifty-nine recordi... Read More about Evaluation of the usefulness at national level of the dairy cattle health and production recording systems in Great Britain.

Recycling manure as cow bedding: potential benefits and risks for UK dairy farms (2015)
Journal Article

Material obtained from physical separation of slurry (recycled manure solids; RMS) has been used as bedding for dairy cows in dry climates in the US since the 1970s. Relatively recently, the technical ability to produce drier material has led to adop... Read More about Recycling manure as cow bedding: potential benefits and risks for UK dairy farms.

An investigation of the dynamics of intramammary infections acquired during the dry period on European dairy farms (2015)
Journal Article

The dry period is acknowledged as playing a key role in mastitis epidemiology and yet surprisingly few studies have explored dry period infection dynamics in detail. The aim of this study was to investigate the dynamics of intramammary infection acro... Read More about An investigation of the dynamics of intramammary infections acquired during the dry period on European dairy farms.

Use of stochastic simulation to evaluate the reduction in methane emissions and improvement in reproductive efficiency from routine hormonal interventions in dairy herds (2015)
Journal Article

This study predicts the magnitude and between herd variation in changes of methane emissions and production efficiency associated with interventions to improve reproductive efficiency in dairy cows. Data for 10,000 herds of 200 cows were simulated. P... Read More about Use of stochastic simulation to evaluate the reduction in methane emissions and improvement in reproductive efficiency from routine hormonal interventions in dairy herds.

Unravelling the temporal association between lameness and body condition score in dairy cattle using a multistate modelling approach (2015)
Journal Article

Recent studies have reported associations between lameness and body condition score (BCS) in dairy cattle, however the impact of change in the dynamics of BCS on both lameness occurrence and recovery is currently unknown. The aim of this study was to... Read More about Unravelling the temporal association between lameness and body condition score in dairy cattle using a multistate modelling approach.

Low body condition predisposes cattle to lameness: An 8-year study of one dairy herd (2015)
Journal Article

Lameness in dairy cows is a multifactorial and progressive disease with complex interactions between risk factors contributing to its occurrence. Detailed records were obtained from one United Kingdom dairy herd over an 8-yr period. Weekly locomotion... Read More about Low body condition predisposes cattle to lameness: An 8-year study of one dairy herd.

Area of hock hair loss in dairy cows : risk factors and correlation to a categorical scale (2015)
Journal Article

Data from 3691 dairy cows from 76 farms were used to investigate the risk factors associated with area of hair loss over the lateral aspect of the hock, and the correlation between the area of hair loss as calculated using a hock map and hock lesion... Read More about Area of hock hair loss in dairy cows : risk factors and correlation to a categorical scale.

Dairy herd mastitis and reproduction: using simulation to aid interpretation of results from discrete time survival analysis (2015)
Journal Article

Probabilistic sensitivity analysis (PSA) is a simulation-based technique for evaluating the relative importance of different inputs to a complex process model. It is commonly employed in decision analysis and for evaluation of the potential impact of... Read More about Dairy herd mastitis and reproduction: using simulation to aid interpretation of results from discrete time survival analysis.