Efecto de la podología en el bienestar de vacas holstein mestizas al pastoreo

Abstract

In the productive aspect, Veterinary Medicine has gone through changes of all kinds over the years with the establishment of strategic plans to guarantee maximum production in the cattle herds of the world. In this case, livestock is destined to management systems that lead to wear and tear, damaging their physical condition. Lameness is a critical point in the farms, so in this research we tried to demonstrate that the correct podiatric procedure helps the optimal comfort of the cows, solving hoof ailments, and reducing the deterioration of the animal to improve factors attributed to animal welfare, which is a key point, which indicates the ideal stability of our animals. The goal of this topic was to assess the changes obtained from the bovines that participated in the podiatric intervention, knowing their background and determining improvements in production, behavior, and physical characteristics, obtaining results, such as the change of the animals with podiatric problems that presented significantly lower values than the rest of the population, although after being intervened to the bovine podiatry treatment they evidenced improvement, disappearing the difference with the animals that were not treated, determining the analysis and observation of the cows as an indicator of recovery, nevertheless in the results of corporal condition the values are not so relevant to notorious and immediate changes. But mainly increasing welfare values in cattle.