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Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

Keywords

Cows, Hypocalcaemia, Western Australia

Disciplines

Dairy Science | Nutritional Epidemiology | Veterinary Pathology and Pathobiology

First Page Number

1009

Last Page Number

1012

ISSN

0021-8618

Abstract

THE condition known as milk fever is almost essentially a disease of highly productive adult milking cows at the time of calving.

It is characterised by a low blood calcium level causing a sudden general depression of consciousness of the cow and muscular paralysis.

Without treatment most cases result in the death of the cow.

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