Sole ulcers persist as one of the major causes of lameness in dairy cattle in the UK. For both animal welfare and economic reasons, minimising the ...

Cows have cloven hooves (i.e. hooves split into two toes) and toenails. In nature, cows wear down their toenails naturally by walking. Unfortunately, many cows today don’t do much walking around.

Significant progress has been made in meeting six dairy cow welfare goals, a recent report has highlighted. The five-year UK Dairy Cattle Welfare Strategy was launched two years ago by Ruminant Health ...

Staff have been caught on film punching and kicking cows on a major milk producer farm. Did you know with a Digital subscription to Yorkshire Post, you can get access to all of our premium content, as ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Foot and mouth disease has been confirmed in cattle on a farm in southern England, the British government said on Friday. The agriculture department, Defra, said in a statement that ...