Table 20.

Comparison of housing systems regarding prevalence of claw disorders

Country	Variable	Tie‐stall	Cubicle	Straw yard	Compost‐bedded pack	Reference
AT, IT	Claw diseases	ns	ns			Katzenberger et al. (2020)
	Overgrown claws	↑	↓
PL	Claw diseases	ns	ns			Olechnowicz et al. (2010)
FI	Infectious claw diseases		↓	↑		Häggman and Juga (2015)
	Non‐infectious claw diseases		↑ (a)	↓
AT	Heel horn erosion		↑		↓	Burgstaller et al. (2016)
	White line disease		↑		↓
	Concave dorsal wall		↑		↓
	Interdigital hyperplasia		↑		↓
	Double sole		ns		ns
	Sole haemorrhage		ns		ns
	Sole ulcer		ns		ns
	Horn fissure		ns		ns
ES	Inflamed coronet		↓		↑	Fernández et al. (2020)

↓ = significantly fewer disorders (p < 0.05), ↑ = significantly more disorders (p < 0.05); ns = not significant. The housing systems compared are indicated by these arrows and empty cells mean that the corresponding housing system was not included in the comparison.

^(a)Slatted floor.