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Downed heifer, late in pregnancy.
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<blockquote data-quote="simme" data-source="post: 1681294" data-attributes="member: 40418"><p>Most important for cattle or any living creature is water. Next is nutrition. Minerals are important for good health and breeding, but not nearly as important as enough energy in their diet to meet their needs. You especially see problems with females just before they calve if they get below a minimum nutrition level and condition. They go down and don't have energy to get up. Happens when feeding low quality hay without any supplemental feed. Sometimes, they don't look that bad to an observer, but people overlook the basic need of energy in the feed. They think minerals and worms and such. But, many people lose cattle in the winter due to starvation while having plenty of very poor quality hay/forage out. At some quality level, it takes more energy to digest poor quality hay than the hay provides. I did not view the video from the post, so I am not making any claim of what the issue is in this particular case. But in general, cows have a minimum nutrition level in order to sustain life. That increases if they are pregnant. Cows need a good nutrition level to calve. If BCS is low, they need to be fed before they calve in addition to after they calve. A dead cow can't have a light calf or a heavy calf. Just my opinion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="simme, post: 1681294, member: 40418"] Most important for cattle or any living creature is water. Next is nutrition. Minerals are important for good health and breeding, but not nearly as important as enough energy in their diet to meet their needs. You especially see problems with females just before they calve if they get below a minimum nutrition level and condition. They go down and don't have energy to get up. Happens when feeding low quality hay without any supplemental feed. Sometimes, they don't look that bad to an observer, but people overlook the basic need of energy in the feed. They think minerals and worms and such. But, many people lose cattle in the winter due to starvation while having plenty of very poor quality hay/forage out. At some quality level, it takes more energy to digest poor quality hay than the hay provides. I did not view the video from the post, so I am not making any claim of what the issue is in this particular case. But in general, cows have a minimum nutrition level in order to sustain life. That increases if they are pregnant. Cows need a good nutrition level to calve. If BCS is low, they need to be fed before they calve in addition to after they calve. A dead cow can't have a light calf or a heavy calf. Just my opinion. [/QUOTE]
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