Background: Livestock mortality impacts farmer livelihoods and household nutrition.
Capturing trends in livestock mortality at localised or national levels is essential to planning …

ABSTRACT National bodies in Great Britain (GB) have expressed concern over young stock
health and welfare and identified calf survival as a priority; however, no national data have …

Raising calves and youngstock is an essential part of beef production. High on-farm
mortality (unassisted death and euthanasia) is a consequence of poor animal health and …

In the Netherlands, the mortality rate of ear-tagged calves< 1 yr is one of the indicators that is
continuously monitored in census data and is defined as the number of deceased calves …

A study of bovine mortality involving a stratified random sample of farms and veterinary
practices was carried out in Northern Ireland during 1992. In the farm survey over 3500 …

High on-farm mortality is associated with lower financial return of production and poor
animal health and welfare. Understanding the reasons for on-farm mortality and related risk …

The objective of this study was to document mortality reasons and risk factors for mortality in
dairy calves in the northeast of Iran. This was a prospective cohort study of calves born on …

In a retrospective cohort study of national register data, 1946 randomly selected holdings,
with 286,912 individual cattle accumulating 170,416 animal-years were analyzed. The …

Dairy calf mortality is an area of interest worldwide as animal welfare continues to increase
in importance to the consumer. Perinatal mortality, defined as death of a full term calf either …

Dairy calf mortality is of interest worldwide as animal welfare continues to increase in
importance to the consumer. This review summarises overall estimations of perinatal …