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Cow down because of low calcium
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<blockquote data-quote="TexasBred" data-source="post: 1566192" data-attributes="member: 6897"><p>Wish Lucky the vet would chime in on this Tom but basically by feeding elevated levels of calcium you increase the calcium level in the blood almost immediately. When the cow calves and begins producing milk the sudden depletion of the calcium in the blood causes the milk fever. If you would remove or at least reduce available calcium during the last two months of pregnancy blood calcium level would be reduced and when the cow calves and begins producing milk she will pull the calcium from the bone rather than the blood and there will normally be no problems. It is the sudden reduction of the excess calcium in the blood being suddenly reduced that causes the problem.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TexasBred, post: 1566192, member: 6897"] Wish Lucky the vet would chime in on this Tom but basically by feeding elevated levels of calcium you increase the calcium level in the blood almost immediately. When the cow calves and begins producing milk the sudden depletion of the calcium in the blood causes the milk fever. If you would remove or at least reduce available calcium during the last two months of pregnancy blood calcium level would be reduced and when the cow calves and begins producing milk she will pull the calcium from the bone rather than the blood and there will normally be no problems. It is the sudden reduction of the excess calcium in the blood being suddenly reduced that causes the problem. [/QUOTE]
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