Supplemental data: Perceived producer barriers to the implementation of best management practices for the early detection and treatment of lameness and selective antibiotic therapies for non-severe clinical mastitis and at dry-off in dairy cattle

A total of 6 focus groups involving 35 participants from 30 farms were held in Ontario Canada from February 5, to March 8, 2024. Twenty-five (71%) individuals who identified as a man and ten (29%) who identified as a woman. Participants were on average 39 years old (median = 37, range = 20 to 80). Twenty-three of the farms (77%) were freestall and seven (23%) were tiestall. Sand bedding was used by 14 farms (47%) and combinations of shavings, straw and mats were used by 16 farms (53%). Farms had an average of 105 lactating cows (median = 82, range = 40 to 425). Ten farms (33%) milked their cows in a parlor, 13 (43%) used an automatic milking systems, and seven (24%) farms used other milking systems.