Table 1.

The severity of the lesions recorded at day 3, day 10, day 17 was scored as 0, 1, 2 or 3 defined as shown below.

Score	Skin lesions	Sole bruising/Sole erosion	Castration wounds
0 – No lesion	-	-	-
1 – Mild	Hairless patches or loss of hair and mild hyperkeratosis	Smal part of the volar surface of digit affected	Mild inflammation, eczema or oedema
2 – Moderate	Skin abrasions	Less than half of the volar surface of the digit affected	Clinical signs of inflammation, swelling, redness, localized warmth
3 – Severe	Skin wounds. Spots of induration or scab that is a hard mass mainly of dried blood.	More than half of the volar surface digit affected or sole erosion, loss of horny tissue.	Inflamed castration wounds with purulence. Smelly wound. Abcess.