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Common defects of the hind limbs include the same base-wide and base-narrow stances and problems with the feet as the fore limbs, as well as multiple issues with the angle formed by the hock joint being too angled (sickle-hocked), too straight (straight behind) or having an inward deviation (cow-hocked).
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After slaughter at 25 weeks of age, OC was scored on the elbow, knee, and hock joints.
From 2011 to 2014, 13 turkey arthritis reoviruses (TARVs) were isolated from cases of swollen hock joints in 2 18-week-old turkeys.
In all animals, immediately following nerve transection, the limb became profoundly paretic, showed poor limb flexion, the hock joint was overflexed, the fetlock was partially flexed, and absent postural reactions and hypoalgesia of the limb from distal of the stifle were recognized.
Lesions in the hock joint were reported macroscopically to be typical for osteochondrosis.
Grevenhof and colleagues [ 45] examined multiple joints and also found the highest prevalence of OC in the hock joint.
The foetal limb was withdrawn from the uterus until the anterior surface of the hock joint was easily accessible.
Hock-to-stifle distance (HSD, cm) is a distance from the knee joint to the hock joint.
In another case, a right hock joint with an OC score of 2 also had chronic proliferative synovitis with marked mature granulation tissue.
OC lesions in the hock joint occurred in 82.4% of free-range and 64.4% of confined pigs with an odds ratio of 2.6.
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