Foot lesions in lame cows on 10 dairy farms in Ireland

Table 5 The mean number of lesions found per cow across 3 lactation groups

	1st Lactation (n = 10)	2nd Lactation (n = 11)	≥3rd Lactation (n = 123)	One-way Anova p-value
Infectious	0.50	0	0.56	0.11
Non-infectious	1.80	3.55	2.90	0.13
Total	2.30	3.64	3.47	0.21
DD	0.40	0	0.40	0.14
HHE	0.10	0	0.16	0.50
SH	0.50	0.73	1.07	0.08
SU	0.10	0.18	0.14	0.89
WLD	0.80	0.64	0.81	0.84
AF	0	0	0.07	0.45
TU	0.10^a,b	0.27^b	0.05^a	0.04
IH	0	0.09	0.11	0.64
VF	0	0	0.02	0.88
DS	0.30	0.55	0.29	0.46
LT	0^a	1.09^b	0.34^a	0.03

First and second lactation animals were analysed in separate groups. Third and higher (≥3) lactation animals were combined into 1 group. ^a and ^b indicate a significant (p < 0.05) difference in the mean number of lesions found per cow for that specific lesion between the different lactation groups

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