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Using simulation to interpret a discrete time survival model in a complex biological system: fertility and lameness in dairy cows (2014)
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The ever-growing volume of data routinely collected and stored in everyday life presents researchers with a number of opportunities to gain insight and make predictions. This study aimed to demonstrate the usefulness in a specific clinical context of... Read More about Using simulation to interpret a discrete time survival model in a complex biological system: fertility and lameness in dairy cows.

Water intake, faecal output and intestinal motility in horses moved from pasture to a stabled management regime with controlled exercise (2014)
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Reasons for performing study: A change in management from pasture to stabling is a risk factor for equine colic. Objectives: To investigate the effect of a management change from pasture with no controlled exercise to stabling with light exercise... Read More about Water intake, faecal output and intestinal motility in horses moved from pasture to a stabled management regime with controlled exercise.

Bayesian evaluation of budgets for endemic disease control: an example using management changes to reduce milksomatic cell count early in the first lactation of Irish dairy cows (2014)
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The aim of this research was to determine budgets for specific management interventions to control heifer mastitis in Irish dairy herds as an example of evidence synthesis and 1-step Bayesian micro-simulation in a veterinary context. Budgets were det... Read More about Bayesian evaluation of budgets for endemic disease control: an example using management changes to reduce milksomatic cell count early in the first lactation of Irish dairy cows.

Association between somatic cell count during the first lactation and the cumulative milk yield of cows in Irish dairy herds (2014)
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Reduced potential milk yield is an important component of mastitis costs in dairy cows. The first aim of this study was to assess associations between somatic cell count (SCC) during the first lactation, and cumulative milk yield over the first lacta... Read More about Association between somatic cell count during the first lactation and the cumulative milk yield of cows in Irish dairy herds.

Association between somatic cell count after first parturition and cumulative milk yield in dairy cows (2013)
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The aim was to assess the association between the somatic cell count of parity 1 cows between 5 and 30 days in milk (SCC1), and subsequent cumulative milk yield over approximately two years for cows in English and Welsh dairy herds. The dataset inclu... Read More about Association between somatic cell count after first parturition and cumulative milk yield in dairy cows.

Incidence, causes and outcomes of lameness cases in a working military horse population: a field study (2013)
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Reasons for performing study: Lameness is a common problem in the horse. Despite this, information on the incidence of lameness in horses in the UK is restricted to studies of lameness in performance horses, racehorses or referral hospital population... Read More about Incidence, causes and outcomes of lameness cases in a working military horse population: a field study.

Proactive dairy cattle disease control in the UK: veterinary surgeons' involvement and associated characteristics (2013)
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Characteristics of 94 veterinary surgeons associated with delivering preventive herd-level strategies to control mastitis, lameness and Johne's disease were investigated using two multinomial models. The response variables were ‘Gold Standard Monitor... Read More about Proactive dairy cattle disease control in the UK: veterinary surgeons' involvement and associated characteristics.

Association between somatic cell count early in the first lactation and the longevity of Irish dairy cows (2013)
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Reduced longevity of cows is an important component of mastitis costs, and increased somatic cell count (SCC) early in the first lactation has been reported to increase culling risk throughout the first lactation. Generally, cows must survive beyond... Read More about Association between somatic cell count early in the first lactation and the longevity of Irish dairy cows.

Effect of extended cefquinome treatment on clinical persistence or recurrence of environmental clinical mastitis (2013)
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The effectiveness of antibiotic treatment of clinical mastitis (CM) is classically evaluated using bacteriological cure, which provides a concise and objective way of assessing efficacy but does not reflect the situation in the field where persistenc... Read More about Effect of extended cefquinome treatment on clinical persistence or recurrence of environmental clinical mastitis.

How does reviewing the evidence change veterinary surgeons’ beliefs regarding the treatment of ovine footrot?: a quantitative and qualitative study (2013)
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Footrot is a widespread, infectious cause of lameness in sheep, with major economic and welfare costs. The aims of this research were: (i) to quantify how veterinary surgeons’ beliefs regarding the efficacy of two treatments for footrot changed follo... Read More about How does reviewing the evidence change veterinary surgeons’ beliefs regarding the treatment of ovine footrot?: a quantitative and qualitative study.

Using hormones to manage dairy cow fertility: the clinical and ethical beliefs of veterinary practitioners (2013)
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In the face of a steady decline in dairy cow fertility over several decades, using hormones to assist reproduction has become common. In the European Union, hormones are prescription-only medicines, giving veterinary practitioners a central role in t... Read More about Using hormones to manage dairy cow fertility: the clinical and ethical beliefs of veterinary practitioners.

Association between somatic cell count early in the first lactation and the lifetime milk yield of cows in Irish dairy herds (2013)
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Change in lifetime milk yield is an important component of the cost of diseases in dairy cows. Knowledge of the likelihood and scale of potential savings through disease prevention measures is important to evaluate how much expenditure on control mea... Read More about Association between somatic cell count early in the first lactation and the lifetime milk yield of cows in Irish dairy herds.

Association of season and herd size with somatic cell count for cows in Irish,English, and Welsh dairy herds (2013)
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The aims of this study were to describe associations of time of year, and herd size with cow somatic cell count (SCC) for Irish, English, and Welsh dairy herds. Random samples of 497 and 493 Irish herds, and two samples of 200 English and Welsh (UK)... Read More about Association of season and herd size with somatic cell count for cows in Irish,English, and Welsh dairy herds.

Dairy herd health (2012)
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Dairy herd health is an important and universal topic in large animal veterinary practice and farming, covering both preventive medicine and health promotion. With the move towards large-scale farming, the health of the herd is important as an econom... Read More about Dairy herd health.

A Bayesian elicitation of veterinary beliefs regarding systemic dry cow therapy: variation and importance for clinical trial design (2012)
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The two key aims of this research were: (i) to conduct a probabilistic elicitation to quantify the variation in veterinarians’ beliefs regarding the efficacy of systemic antibiotics when used as an adjunct to intra-mammary dry cow therapy and (ii) to... Read More about A Bayesian elicitation of veterinary beliefs regarding systemic dry cow therapy: variation and importance for clinical trial design.