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Milk Fever

By Clare Coxon, 11 January 2011 – 2 comments

This morning we had an assisted calving. The birth was slow indicating that there was a problem requiring treatment. The cow didn't respond to the injection of calcium we gave it so the vet came and attached an intravenous drip that seems to have done the trick. Our Kendal vet has a French student on placement at the practice. No doubt she has seen all the animal ailments before, but she has probably not heard them described in Westmorland dialect.

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  • Jan Moffat

    17 January 2011, 10.31am

    My final year project in my degree in Animal Physiology and Nutrition was Milk Fever in dairy cows. I had an interview with BP Nutrition and they offered to buy my project off me. I am not sure if they ever used the results as I chose to be a NFU Group Secretary instead in Aylesbury rather than working on the Wirral for BP! I know the principles of feeding low Ca diets prepartum. I wonder if they follow the same advice now?

  • Richard Park

    18 January 2011, 7.15pm

    This was and in most cases is still true but recent research has found that the cation/anion balance in the diet is the main cause with high levels of potassium being the main antagonist .It creates an alkaline environment in the blood when really the blood needs to be slightly acid at calving this will help the cow to mobilise her own calcium from bones (this is the only form the cow is able to store calcium)

    The cow 438 has made a full recovery and fortunately cases are unusual

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