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Should this cow have been rebred? Is this practice in keeping with the "highest animal welfare standards in the world"?
Good Welfare?
- Thread starter unlacedgecko
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- Owaka, New Zealand
FFS 
and they're breeding off her
High welfare my arse, that's plain wrong
and they're breeding off her High welfare my arse, that's plain wrong
2 wrongs dont make right
endeavour
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- centre of milky way Carmarthenshire
Can not see her feet but is she in pain or just disabled, to adopt human values this is important as I do hope no one considers euthanasia for me because I walk with a stick all be it only a few yards I still enjoy life!!!!!!
Exactly this.
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I asked the same questions on twitter (on the original post). But I know little of dairy cow lameness, hence my question here.
dinderleat
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Probably a toe necrosis should be on the barren list and culled out. But everyone is different I suppose.
M-J-G
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Either sort her feet or cull her.
And FFS don't humanize her, that's what causes welfare to go down the tubes, we see it all the time with clueless pet owners.
People have awareness of life and death, they can help themselves and they have choices in what they do. The cow has none of the above.
If a cow lives one more day or 5 more years, she'll still enjoy today just the same.
And FFS don't humanize her, that's what causes welfare to go down the tubes, we see it all the time with clueless pet owners.
People have awareness of life and death, they can help themselves and they have choices in what they do. The cow has none of the above.
If a cow lives one more day or 5 more years, she'll still enjoy today just the same.
Same as us all
Same as us all
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- Aberdeenshire
They clearly feel a block makes her walk better which means that she is in pain. Very few cows have a functional lameness (altered mobility not caused by pain) most are due to pain. The cows doesn’t have a choice not to walk or use a stick you do and that’s the difference!
Spudley
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I can't watch his videos,they make me feel ill, he's so aggressive in his trimming.
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I would give each paragraph a like if that were possible. Spot on.
M-J-G
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Not really.
That applies if you have an accident or something unforseen, which brings us back to awareness.
But if people know what they are going to die in a matter of weeks or days they tend not to be in the same frame of mind as they were before they were aware of it.
To put yourself in the cows position re. lameness, stick a handful of rocks in your boots and walk around most of the day, stand while you eat, walk somewhere else to drink etc. and do that for a few years, knowing that you can't take the boots off unless someone else who you cannot speak to considers sorting the problem for you.
I don't like that idea.
Even I can tell its next door to you
Thought so but wanted clarification
“Walk the long distances” sort of gave it away
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