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Livestock and smallholding · LK-53
Dairy Herd Mobility Score Record
A free printable mobility scoring sheet for dairy cows: the tally at each score on your scale, follow-up for every lame cow, and a monthly trend line.
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2 pages. Choose your paper size — both versions are laid out identically, so neither one gets shrunk to fit.
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What this sheet is for
Turn a scoring walk into a list of cows that were examined, treated and re-scored. The monthly trend then shows whether lameness in the herd is going up or down.
Who it is for
Dairy farmers, herd managers, foot trimmers and vets who score mobility regularly.
How to use it
- Write the scale you use and which scores need action at the top.
- Score each cow as she walks past and add a mark against her score in the tally.
- Count each score and work out its share of the cows scored.
- List every cow in the action scores, then fill in the examination, the action taken and her re-score.
- Carry the monthly figures forward on the trend row of the next sheet.
What is on the sheet
2 pages, in this order:
Page 1
Printed under the title: One scoring session: the group walked, the tally at each score on the scale you use, then every cow in your action scores followed until she is re-scored.
Name your scale first. No scoring scale, action score or target is printed. Mobility is scored on different scales in different countries: write yours at the top, score in the same place and the same way each session, and agree with your vet which scores need action.
Write-on lines: Herd or holding · Date · Scorer · Group · Scale used · Action scores · Surface walked on · Cows scored
Tally — one line per score on your scale; count, then work out each share
Table, 5 rows: Score · Tally · Cows · Share · Action for this score
Cows in the action scores — follow each one until she is re-scored
Also printed: Cow · Score · Leg · Examined · What was found · Action · Re-score · Result · tag · date · vet, trimmer · trimmed, treated · score
Page 2
Also printed: Cow · Score · Leg · Examined · What was found · Action · Re-score · Result · tag · date · vet, trimmer · trimmed, treated · score
Trend — carry the figures forward from sheet to sheet
Also printed: Month · Jan · Feb · Mar · Apr · May · Jun · Jul · Aug · Sep · Oct · Nov · Dec · Cows scored · In action scores · Share (%)
Questions
Why is no scoring scale printed?
Because there is more than one in use: some countries score on a four-point scale, others on five, and the descriptions differ. Name yours at the top and use only that one, so this month's tally can be compared with last month's.
Which cows need to go on the follow-up list?
The ones in the scores you and your vet have agreed need action. Write those scores in the box at the top, then list every cow scored in them, so none is scored and then forgotten.
How is this different from the hoof trimming record?
The trimming record is what was done at each foot. This sheet is the herd-level screening that decides which cows go to the crush in the first place, and checks they improved afterwards.
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