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ArticleArchives animal breeding2024

A pilot study: tail tip lesions in dairy cows - an unnoticed animal welfare issue?

Prisca V Kremer-Rücker, Kathrin M Abel, Lea M Lorenz, Christine Schmidt, Mirjam Lechner, Kim F Schubert, Amalie A Köhler, Saskia Meier, Armin M Scholz

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Article in Archives animal breeding, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. The Prevalence of Tail Alterations on German Dairy Farms.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Prisca V Kremer-RückerAnimal Health and Welfare in Livestock Breeding, Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition, Hochschule Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences, 91746 Weidenbach-Triesdorf, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1387-7277
Kathrin M AbelAnimal Health and Welfare in Livestock Breeding, Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition, Hochschule Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences, 91746 Weidenbach-Triesdorf, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0007-0436-9445
Lea M LorenzAnimal Health and Welfare in Livestock Breeding, Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition, Hochschule Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences, 91746 Weidenbach-Triesdorf, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8583-9558
Christine SchmidtAnimal Health and Welfare in Livestock Breeding, Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition, Hochschule Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences, 91746 Weidenbach-Triesdorf, Germany.
Mirjam LechnerUnabhängige Erzeugergemeinschaft Hohenlohe Franken, 97996 Niederstetten-Adolzhausen, Germany.
Kim F SchubertAnimal Health and Welfare in Livestock Breeding, Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition, Hochschule Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences, 91746 Weidenbach-Triesdorf, Germany.
Amalie A KöhlerAnimal Health and Welfare in Livestock Breeding, Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition, Hochschule Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences, 91746 Weidenbach-Triesdorf, Germany.
Saskia MeierAnimal Health and Welfare in Livestock Breeding, Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition, Hochschule Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences, 91746 Weidenbach-Triesdorf, Germany.
Armin M ScholzLivestock Center Oberschleissheim, Veterinary Faculty, University of Munich, Oberschleißheim, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7075-0067

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The welfare of dairy cows is becoming increasingly important. While diseases like mastitis and lameness are common ailments, injuries to the tail tip go largely unnoticed. This study aimed to investigate whether tail tip lesions, which are mostly described in beef cattle, also occurred on

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