Objective: Disease lameness is affected in livestock breeding, milk production, the economy and is found the effect of infectious agents, nutritional and environmental and mechanical. When this happens the trap of power going to the manger, eating and moving it loses and the poor. Materials and Methods: In order to determine the prevalence of lameness, the type of the lesions and the degree of cow’s lameness a study was carried out in 50 dairy farms from one province. The cows were visited once week between mars and May 2016. In each visit all the cows milked at the time of the visit were observed during locomotion. In lame cows all four feet were examined. The degree of lameness was scored in a scale of 1 to 4, being 1 slightly lame and 4 very lame. The data were recorded in an individual recording sheet for each cow. Results & Conclusion All the data recorded were introduced in an EXCEL data sheet as numerical variables and analyzed using the statistical program SPSS 7.0. The regional prevalence of lameness were determined, as well as the total prevalence for each cause of lameness. A total of 50 dairy cows were observed. The mean total prevalence was (15%). The most frequent lesions were chronic lesions of the hoof, white line lesions, lesions of the wall and overgrowth of the sole horn. It is necessary to educate farmers on the effect of lameness on production and animal welfare.
