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<blockquote data-quote="Bright Raven" data-source="post: 1538439" data-attributes="member: 27490"><p>That could be the correlation with the calves with contracted tendons! As you know Brad, minerals like copper, zinc, selenium, etc are critical structural inorganic atoms in otherwise organic compounds. Many enzymes and metabolic catalysts have Iron as a structural inorganic atom in an otherwise organic compound - hemoglobin is one of the classic examples. If you are low in Iron, you lack adequate hemoglobin and are declared to be anemic.</p><p></p><p>Same way with muscles and tendons. If that cow is not availing herself of minerals, the calves are coming into the world at a disadvantage.</p><p></p><p>Having said that, Most contracted tendons are due to the physical constraints of the uterus and are more pronounced in larger calves. The calf I had this year with CT was not a mineral deficiency. He was just big.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bright Raven, post: 1538439, member: 27490"] That could be the correlation with the calves with contracted tendons! As you know Brad, minerals like copper, zinc, selenium, etc are critical structural inorganic atoms in otherwise organic compounds. Many enzymes and metabolic catalysts have Iron as a structural inorganic atom in an otherwise organic compound - hemoglobin is one of the classic examples. If you are low in Iron, you lack adequate hemoglobin and are declared to be anemic. Same way with muscles and tendons. If that cow is not availing herself of minerals, the calves are coming into the world at a disadvantage. Having said that, Most contracted tendons are due to the physical constraints of the uterus and are more pronounced in larger calves. The calf I had this year with CT was not a mineral deficiency. He was just big. [/QUOTE]
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