Spastic Paresis; costly defect in dairy cows

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In recent years, there has been necessary attention for the increasingly straighter rear leg position in Holsteins. Too often we see young animals that have much straighter rear legs than optimal from side view, often resulting in little flexibility and poor mobility. Only if we continue to objectively record linear data on various farms will we ha...

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