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Monday, June 9
08:00 - 18:00 Registration
Congress Office at the Kuopio Music Centre
08:30 - 16:45 Pre Congress Tours to Local Farms
20:00 - 22:00 Welcome Reception by the City of Kuopio
Kuopio City Hall, right by the Market Square
Read more about the people speaking on Tuesday here.Tuesday, June 10
08:00 - 17:00 Registration
Day Theme: Cow Comfort (morning session)
Place: Concert Hall
Chairman: Hannu Saloniemi
08:30 - 09:30 Opening Ceremony
09:30 - 10:30 In Honour of E. Toussaint Raven
Jouni Niemi, Finland
- Lecture Sponsor: Vetman
10:30 - 11:00 Ecolab Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:45 Economic Modelling
Yrjö Gröhn, USA
- Lecture Sponsor: Finnish Animal Health Service (FAHS)
11:45 - 12:30 Ethogram
Jaakko Mononen, Finland
- Lecture Sponsor: City of Kuopio
12:30 - 13:30 Zinpro Lunch
Day Theme: Cow Comfort (afternoon session)
Place: Concert Hall
Chairman: Jouni Niemi
13:30 - 14:15 Cow Comfort
Nigel Cook, UK / USA
- Lecture Sponsor: Ecolab
14:15 - 15:00 Cow Comfort
Neil Chesterton, New Zealand
- Lecture Sponsor: Savonia University of Applied Sciences
15:00 - 15:30 Orion Coffee Break
15:30 - 17:00 Nomenclature and Atlas Update
Paul Greenough, Canada --> Dana Tomlinson and Dorte Dopfer.
- Lecture Sponsor: Zinpro
- We are sorry to announce that Paul has got sick and cannot come to the meeting.
- This lecture is given by Dana Tomlinson and Dorte Dopfer.
17:00 - 17:10 Questions and Discussion
17:10 - 17:40 
The Zinpro Lecture
First Step - a program to assist in the troubleshooting and prevention of lameness in dairy herds,
Nigel Cook, UK / USA
18:00 - Business Meetings
18:00 - 19:00 Business meeting
- for all parties concerned on Lameness in Ruminants
place: Zinpro Hall (Chamber Music Hall)
18:00 - 19:00 Vetcare Vet Information Lecture
- only for veterinarians
place: Meeting room Strings, 3. floor
19:00 - 19:30 Orion Pharma Hygifarm Lecture
place: Zinpro Hall (Chamber Music Hall)
Evening open for Sponsors' and personal program
Wednesday, June 11
08:00 - 17:00 Registration
Day Theme 1: Epidemiology
Place: Zinpro Hall (Chamber Music Hall)
Sponsor: Ecolab
Chairman: Minna Kujala
08:30 - 10:30 Housing and Environment 1
Cook Nigel: State of the Art Free Stall Designs: Do they allow lame cows to maintain normal patterns of stall use?
March Solveig: Reducing lameness in organic dairy herds by implementation of farm individual intervention measures
Stokes Jessica: Lameness in dairy cattle: relationships between environments, animal based welfare measures and locomotion
Haufe Helge Christiane: Influence of floor type in cubicle housing systems on the behaviour and on the claw health of dairy cows
Ouweltjes Wijbrand: Impact of floor type on animal behaviour and milk production
Dippel Sabine: Influence of housing and management on lameness in cubicle housed Austrian Simmental dairy cows
10:30-11:00 Demotec Coffee Break
Day theme 2: Small ruminants and infectious diseases
Place: Ecolab Auditorium (Auditorium)
Sponsor: Orion
Chairman: Katharina Gustafsson
08:30 - 10:30 Sheep
Dhungyel Om.: Sequential specific or target vaccination to control and eradicate multiple serogroup Dichelobacter nodosus footrot infection in small ruminants
Hawker Elisabeth: An intervention study to minimise footrot in sheep
Green Laura: Economic improvements from a clinical trial minimising lameness in sheep
Kaler Jasmeet: A longitudinal study of locomotion, interdigital dermatitis and footrot in sheep
Kaler Jasmeet: Farmer recognition of common foot lesions and lameness in sheep and decisions to inspect affected sheep
Dehghani Seifollah: Functional hoof trimming, hoof morphometry and laminitic like lesions in a flock of indoor raised sheep and goat
10:30 - 11:00 Demotec Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:20 Housing and environment 2
Sponsor: Ecolab
Chairman: Minna Kujala
Yajuvendra Singh: Effect of Lameness (Hoof Disorders) on Productivity of Karan Fries Crossbred Cows
- CANCELLED 9.6.2008 --> Pijl René: Field studies of "Pijl's disease"
Brinkmann Jan: Lameness prevalence. Lying behaviour and welfare in different housing systems for dairy cattle - increased cow comfort with straw bedding (CANCELLED)
Telezhenko Evgenij: Dairy cow locomotion and slipperiness in different flooring systems
Telezhenko Evgenij: Effect of different flooring systems on claw sole conformation
12:20 - 13:40 Ecolab Lunch
11:20 - 12:20 Mixture
Sponsor: Vetcare
Chairman: Katharina Gustafsson
Laven Richard: Assessment of the duration of the pain response associated with lameness in dairy cows and the influence of treatment
Glass Charlotte: Development of an extension programme to reduce dairy cattle lameness in New Zealand
Vertenten Geert: Bovine digit amputation with primary closure: surgical technique and follow-up of 45 cases
Leach Katharine: Assessing lameness in tied cows
12:20 - 13:40 Ecolab Lunch
Day Theme 1: Epidemiology
Place: Zinpro Hall (Chamber Music Hall)
Sponsor: Finnish Animal Health Service (FAHS)
Chairman: Timo Soveri
13:40 - 15:00 Epidemiology
Webster John: Characterisation and analysis of proximate at hoof hazards for lameness in dairy heifers
Cook Nigel: Using the timing of the first lame event in a lifetime to identify patterns in claw lesion trigger factors
Kujala Minna: Sole ulcers in Finnish Healthy Hooves -project data
Ettema Jehan: Economic impact on herd level of three categories of lameness causing disorders estimated through simulation
15:00 - 15:30 Hoof-it Coffee Break
Day theme 2: Small ruminants and infectious diseases
Place: Ecolab Auditorium (Auditorium)
Sponsor: Ecolab
Chairman: Johanna Rautiainen
13:40 - 15:00 Infectious diseases 1
Capion Nynne: Prevalence and distribution of new and previously described Treponema phylotypes in digital dermatitis infections
Capion Nynne: Relations between and macroscopic appearance, histopathologic changes and bacterial diversity in digital dermatitis lesions
Kofler Johann: Digital dermatitis in first lactation cows at auctions - a prevalence study
Bell Nick: Prevalence of digital dermatitis lesions in first lactation heifers in response to season and veterinary lameness control programme intervention
15:00 - 15:30 Hoof-it Coffee Break
15:30 - 17:10 Health recording, prevalence, risks
Sponsor: Demotec
Chairman: Timo Soveri
Cramer Gerard: Herd level risk factors for foot lesion in Ontario Holstein herds
Barker Zoe: Assessment of lameness prevalence and assosiated risk factors on 227 dairy herds in England and Wales
Gibbs Jim: Risk factors and incidence of dairy lameness in large herds of the South Island of New Zealand
Yas Al-Juboori Abdulwahhab: Some aspects of lameness in racing camels
15:30 - 17:10 Infectious Diseases 2
Sponsor: Vetman
Chairman: Johanna Rautiainen
Thomsen Peter T: Evaluation of three commercial hoof care products used in footbaths in Danish dairy herds
Lopez Benavides Mario: Evaluation of the effect of multi-compound hoof bath products to treat and prevent digital dermatitis in cattle under field conditions
Döpfer Dörte: A transition matrix model to evaluate the effect of a walk-through
Klaas Ilka: The effect of two different footbath solutions on digital dermatitis
Guard Chuck: Evaluation of foot bathing compounds for chemical stability and bactericidal effect
18:00 - 23:30 The Finnish Night by the Lake
- Sponsored by Ecolab
Thursday, June 12
08:00 -17:00 Registration
8:00 -8:45 BUSINESS MEETING CONTINUES...
- establishment of an association on agenda
Day Theme 1: Locomotion
Place: Zinpro Hall (Chamber Music Hall)
Sponsor: Hoof-it
Chairman: Yrjö Gröhn
NOTE: Lessions start at 8:50 = half an hour later than it stands on the hand program. There will be some changes in the program because of the business meeting.
08:50 - 10:30 Hoof Trimming Methods and Health
De Passille Anne Marie: The effect of hoof trimming on dairy cow gait, assessed by three-dimensional acceleration sensing
Burgi Karl: Adequacy of functional trimming procedures of rear feet collected from a slaughterhouse
Burgi Karl: Three adaptions to the functional trimming method
Sogstad Åse: Monitoring claw health and certification of claw trimmers in Norway
Stanek Christian: Pressure distribution under the solear surface of the bovine claw in comparison of different claw trimming systems
10:30 - 11:20 Vetcare Coffee Break
Day theme 2: Basic Science
Place: Ecolab Auditorium (Auditorium)
Sponsor: Savonia University of Applied Sciences
Chairman: Christoph Mülling
NOTE: Lessions start at 8:50 = 20 minutes later than it stands on the hand program. There will be some changes in the program because of the business meeting.
8:50 - 10: 30 Anatomy
Holzhauer Menno: Non-Healing white line disorders, a new clinical presentation
Nuss Karl: Differences between medial and lateral digits with respect to lenght and width of distal limb bones in cattle of various ages - a radiographic study
Nuss Karl: Radiographic comparison of the lateral and medial digital bones and claw measurements in wild ruminants
Comerma Simon: Role of the endothelium in the reactivity of bovine isolated digital veins
Blowey Roger: Rib swellings associated with chronically lame cattle - a clinical note
10:30 - 11:20 Vetcare Coffee Break
11:20 - 12:20 Locomotion scoring
Sponsor: Zinpro
Chairman: Yrjö Gröhn
Blackie Nicola: Effect of locomotion score on the lying behaviour of zero-grazed Holstein dairy cattle
Rushen Jeffrey: Validating gait scoring to detect lameness in dairy cows
Guard Chuck: Visual locomotion scoring in the first 70 days in milk: impact on pregnancy
Cramer Gerard: The relationship between lameness scores and productivity in Ontario dairy cattle
12:20 - 13:40 Zinpro Lunch
11:20 - 12:20 Nutrition
Sponsor: Zinpro
Chairman: Christoph Mülling
Burgi Karl: "Hairy Attack": a new lesion affecting the corium of the white line - a case report
Drackley James (--> changed speaker: Osorio Johan): Effects of plane of nutrition and bioavailable trace minerals on growth and hoof health of dairy calves
Gibbs Jim: Rumen function and lameness in high intake grass based dairy cows of the South Island of New Zealand
Baird Lorna: Manipulating the fatty acid composition of lipids in the digital cushion of the bovine claw (CANCELLED)
12:20 - 13:40 Zinpro Lunch
Day Theme 1: Locomotion
Place: Zinpro Hall (Chamber Music Hall)
Sponsor: Boumatic
Chairman: Jaakko Mononen
13:40 - 15:00 Novel technologies or models 1
Tasch Uri: Enhancing the predictions accuracy of bovine lameness models through nonlinear transformations of the limb movement variables
Holzhauer Menno: Bovine-Herd-Claw-Score, an objective tool to monitor Herd-Claw condition
Laven Richard: Time series analysis of veterinary treatments for lameness in New Zealand
Guard Chuck: Association between visual locomotion or automated locomotion scores and presence of painful lesions of the digit in lactating Holstein cows
15:00 - 15:30 Boumatic Coffee Break
Day theme 2: Basic Science
Place: Ecolab Auditorium (Auditorium)
Sponsor: Zinpro
Chairman: Dörte Döpfer
13:40 - 15:00 Nutrition and Genetics
Danscher Anne Mette: Mechanical stability of bovine claw tissue after oligofructose overload
Danscher Anne Mette: Polysynovitis after Oligofructose Overload in Cattle
Olmos Gabriela: Genotype of Holstein-Friesian on grass-based systems affects the severity of hoof disorders
- CANCELLED 9.6.2008
Bergsten Christer: Genetic achievements in claw health based on claw trimmers reports from maintenance trimming
Pijl René: The effect from management and genetics to claw disorders
15:00 - 15:30 Boumatic Coffee Break
15:30 - 17:10 Novel Technologies or Models 2
Sponsor: Savonia University of Applied Sciences
Chairman: Jaakko Mononen
Pastell Matti: An objective statistical method to estimate lameness severity and duration based on weight distribution measurements
Maertens Willem: Measurement of cow locomotion on a large pressure sensitive walkway
Chapinal Nuria: Automated detection of lameness in dairy through measures of weight
Bahr Claudia: Automatic detection of lameness in dairy cattle - correlating image features to dairy cow lameness
Bahr Claudia: Early lameness detection in dairy cow - hoof movement analysis by vision techniques
15:30 - 17:10 Genetics and infectious diseases 3
Sponsor: Vetman
Chairman: Dörte Döpfer
Landmann Dietrich C. J.: Effect of test day milk yield in early lactation on incidences of claw disorders
Döpfer Dörte: Dynamics of digital dermatitis infection spread in a large freestall housed Wisconsin Dairy Herd
Berry Steven L: A longitudinal study on the transition of digital dermatitis lesions for 11 months after topical treatment with Lincomycin HCI using 3 scoring systems
Zemljic Borut: Are there any possibilities to eliminate digital dermatitis from dairy herd
Holzhauer Menno: Blue tongue in the Netherlands, clinical symptoms, diagnosis and differential diagnosis, with special attention to lameness
17:30 - 19:50 Kuopio Dance Festival
Kuopio Dance Festival Artistic Director Mr Jorma Uotinen's welcoming reception at 17:30-18:00
20:30 - 23:00 Congress Gala Dinner
- Sponsored by Zinpro
Friday, June 13
Day theme: Farm Tour, Practical Demonstrations
08:00 - 10:00 Registration
08:30 - 17:00 Post Congress Tour
Buses leave from the Kuopio Music Centre at 08:30.
The day will be organized jointly with the Nordic Hoof Trimmers' Meeting.
18:00 - Kuopio Dance Festival Continues