Monday, October 29, 2018

Prevention of Milk Fever: A Herd Health Approach to Dairy Cow Nutrition - Animal Husbandry & Dairy Science 






Milk fever (parturient paresis-hypocalcemia), a metabolic disease, affects high producing dairy animals usually within one or two days after calving, resulting in a huge reduction in milk production. Therefore, the disease becomes economically important. Hypocalcemia  can  also  be  a  cause  of  acidosis,  ketosis,  mastitis,  retained  placenta,  displaced  abomasum  and  metritis. This  article  presents a practical, on-farm approach for the prevention of milk fever in dairy cattle.

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Iris Publishers-Open access Journal of Hydrology & Meteorology | Influence of Community Resilience to Flood Risk and Coping Strategies in Bayelsa State, Southern Nigeria

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