TY  - JOUR
TI  - Morphometric Study on the Digital Bones in the Domestic Cattle
AB  - In this study, the phalanges of the forelimb and hindlimb of 18 adult Holstein breed cattle were used. Morphometric measurements weretaken from 144 digital bones. In contrast to classical references, it was concluded that the greatest lengths (GLpe) were longer in the hindlimbthan the forelimb for the phalanx proximalis and phalanx media. In the phalanx proximalis and phalanx media, the SD*100/GLpe index valuewas high in the forelimb and low in the hindlimb. It was observed that the diffrences between the Bp (Breadth of the proximal end) valuesof phalanx proximalis and Bd (Breadth of the distal end) values in phalanx media were significant for the inner bones of the forelimb andtheir hindlimb counterparts, while the other values were statistically not significant. The presence of an asymmetry between the osteometricmeasurements of the internal and external bones of the digits could only be observed between the GL values of the phalanx media offorelimb (P<0.05). We concluded that the asymmetry seen in the forelimb in Holstein breed cattle maybe a result of being kept on concreteground as dairy cows.
AU  - MUTUŞ, RIFAT
AU  - Gündemir, Ozan
AU  - Ozkan, Ermis
DO  - 10.9775/kvfd.2019.22291
PY  - 2020
JO  - Kafkas Üniversitesi Veteriner Fakültesi Dergisi
VL  - 26
IS  - 1
SN  - 1300-6045
SP  - 75
EP  - 82
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/376650
ER  -