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UK Dairy Day: Breeding for healthier feet

Genetics has a bigger role to play in lameness incidence than previously thought, said Prof Georgios Oikonomou, who discussed a research project looking at this topic during one of the day's seminars

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UK Dairy Day: Breeding for healthier feet

Prof Oikonomou said that a study which collected lameness and mobility data for over 2,300 cows and compared this to genotype information showed that foot lesions were moderately heritable, and genetic...

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