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<blockquote data-quote="TexasBred" data-source="post: 1008104" data-attributes="member: 6897"><p>He may have with the dex. Folks read up on what causes milk fever. You don't feed extra calcium when a cow is in the last two months of pregnancy. You actually pull excess calcium, salt and potassium away from them. You want them to have low blood calcium levels but not "suddenly" as when they begin lactating. They adjust the the lower blood calcium levels and then when they do calve and begin lactating the cow pulls the calcium from the bone with no problem. If you have been feeding excess calcium she simply begins to pull it from the blood...thus the sudden calcium drop causes the milk fever. That is why the CMPK works !!!! Milk fever is not that common in beef cows. There will be the occasional case but if you're having real problems with it you have a real nutritional problem.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TexasBred, post: 1008104, member: 6897"] He may have with the dex. Folks read up on what causes milk fever. You don't feed extra calcium when a cow is in the last two months of pregnancy. You actually pull excess calcium, salt and potassium away from them. You want them to have low blood calcium levels but not "suddenly" as when they begin lactating. They adjust the the lower blood calcium levels and then when they do calve and begin lactating the cow pulls the calcium from the bone with no problem. If you have been feeding excess calcium she simply begins to pull it from the blood...thus the sudden calcium drop causes the milk fever. That is why the CMPK works !!!! Milk fever is not that common in beef cows. There will be the occasional case but if you're having real problems with it you have a real nutritional problem. [/QUOTE]
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