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Assessment of the peste des petits ruminants (ppr) attenuated virus produced by inoculating vero cell line at differen...
ISSN: 2090 - 3308
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Assessment of the peste des petits ruminants (ppr) attenuated virus produced by inoculating vero cell line at differen...
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Publisher: Journal Of Applied Veterinary Sciences Rabie Fayed
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Abstract
This study was conducted in six dairy farms in Beni-Suef Governorate representing the most prevalent systems of housing and management in Egypt to assess the welfare and health of dairy cows kept in these systems. These systems including 1) tie stall barn with daily access to an outside shaded area associated with hand milking twice daily; 2) loose housing in partially sheltered yards on earthy floor represented by 4 farms with different management practices include feeding and milking, and 3) free stall barn with daily access to partially sheltered yards during the day time associated with three times daily milking in a parlour system. Each farm was visited three times over a period of one year. All cows were observed for lying and standing up behaviour and examined for lameness, mastitis, skin alterations at the knee and hock joints and rest of the body, teat injuries, cleanliness of the hind legs and udder, and body condition score...
