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<blockquote data-quote="TexasBred" data-source="post: 510153" data-attributes="member: 6897"><p>Angus, my simple method of giving someone an idea of acidosis is to tell them it's like going from bland diet of oatmeal and toast to a huge, hot and spicy mexican dinner twice a day. You'll need a few rolaids pretty darn quick. Doesn't occur that often in beef cattle, but dairy cattle, feedlot cattle, show cattle and calves on the homeplace being fed a heavy diet of starches (grain) will commmonly have some degree of acidosis. </p><p></p><p>Best way to avoid it is to make sure you're cattle get enough long stem roughage in the diet to maintain proper rumen ph and facilitate cud chewing. At any given time when laying down 50-75% of your cattle should be ruminating. Some of the posts above have described the potential problems associated with acidosis.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TexasBred, post: 510153, member: 6897"] Angus, my simple method of giving someone an idea of acidosis is to tell them it's like going from bland diet of oatmeal and toast to a huge, hot and spicy mexican dinner twice a day. You'll need a few rolaids pretty darn quick. Doesn't occur that often in beef cattle, but dairy cattle, feedlot cattle, show cattle and calves on the homeplace being fed a heavy diet of starches (grain) will commmonly have some degree of acidosis. Best way to avoid it is to make sure you're cattle get enough long stem roughage in the diet to maintain proper rumen ph and facilitate cud chewing. At any given time when laying down 50-75% of your cattle should be ruminating. Some of the posts above have described the potential problems associated with acidosis. [/QUOTE]
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