Item | Score/Criterion |
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Locomotion | ▪ (0) Walking with no obviously abnormal gait. |
▪ (1) Walking with restriction, may be with hunched back and/or short steps. | |
▪ (2) Reluctant to stand up, standing up with difficulty or not walking. | |
Interactive behaviour | ▪ (0) Active; attention to tactile and/or visual and/or audible environmental stimuli; when near other animals, can interact with and/or accompany the group. |
▪ (1) Apathetic: may remain close to other animals, but interacts little when stimulated. | |
▪ (2) Apathetic: may be isolated or may not accompany the other animals; does not react to tactile, visual and/or audible environmental stimuli. | |
Activity | ▪ (0) Moves normally. |
▪ (1) Restless, moves more than normal or lies down and stands up with frequency. | |
▪ (2) Moves less frequently in the pasture or only when stimulated. | |
Appetite | ▪ (0) Normorexia and/or rumination. |
▪ (1) Hyporexia. | |
▪ (2) Anorexia. | |
Miscellaneous behaviours | ▪ Wagging the tail abruptly and repeatedly. |
▪ Licking the surgical wound. | |
▪ Moves and arches the back when in standing posture. | |
▪ Kicking/foot stamping. | |
▪ Hind limbs extended caudally when in standing posture. | |
▪ Head below the line of spinal column. | |
▪ Lying down in ventral recumbency with full or partial extension of one or both hind limbs. | |
▪ Lying down with the head on/close to the ground. | |
▪ Extends the neck and body forward when lying in ventral recumbency. | |
(0) All of the above described behaviours are absent. | |
(1) Presence of 1 of the behaviours described above. | |
(2) Presence of 2 or more of the behaviours described above. |