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Lameness and hoof lesions can have a major impact on farm profitability. In order to assess the situation and better control the problem in one’s herd, it is important to collect reliable data on a regular basis to track progress.
The field of genomics has the potential to not only improve the dairy industry at the herd level, but it has implications at national and global levels.
Following a coordinated industry effort, a national system for collecting health events was implemented in 2007.
Since that time, approximately 40 percent of all herds enrolled on milk recording are voluntarily recording the incidence of eight key diseases: mastitis, displaced abomasum, clinical ketosis, milk fever, retained placenta, metritis, cystic ovaries and lameness.
