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Hi, 'Bog lame' is not a disease as such but one of many colloquial names for some of the symptoms associated with phosphorous deficiency. Blood, DC and Studdert, VP (1998)'Bailliere's comprehensive veterinary dictionary' note that "phosphorous nutritional deficiency cause rickets in the young and osteomalacia in adult ruminants". They also list various associated soft tissue symptoms. I would suggest more detail could be gleaned from any decent animal husbandry book on the keeping of sheep and cattle. I don't have any to hand here but they shouldn't be too hard to track down. Hope that helps, Simon McGrory. On Jul 14 2005, Stephanie Vann wrote: > As part of my PhD research I have been assembling a list of pathologies > and the bony responses they generate. This has included wading through > several articles, and also, for obvious reasons, Baker and Brothwell > (1980), 'Animal Diseases in Archaeology'. Amongst the Miscellaneous > Skeletal Disease I found one called Croiteach, also known as 'bog lame', > 'cropac', 'croitich', 'creutuch' and 'cruban'. This is described as 'an > osteodystrophic disease of lactating cattle and sheep that occurs on > phosphorus deficient pastures'. However, I've been struggling to find > anything more about it or any other references other than that in Baker > and Brothwell. Does anyone happen to know whether this disease has a more > 'scientific' name rather than just going by the long string of gaelic > synonyms? If anyone had some suggestions as to precisely what this might > be, or other places I might look, I'd be grateful to hear them as I'm not > completely certain what it really is.Stephanie Vann