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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1603609" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>Although "milk fever" is usually an early lactation/post partum occurance it is possible but remotely so. However, they have been known to get late lactation milk fever which is actually low potassium in the blood stream. Again it mostly only happens in cows with dairy influence in them, but not unheard of in beef cattle. There are also other things that only a vet would think to look for. It may serve you well to have a vet out, do a blood sample to run and see if there is something lacking. If there is, it could also affect the other animals. Could be that there is something lacking in the grass this year, or the hay. Last year when we were so wet, the cows did not put on the condition that they normally do. Had more than we would have come up open. Vet thought it was because the grass was so "washy" as in so much fast growth and not as much nutrition in it. He thought they were lacking in magnesium. We have upped the mag in the mineral and nearly everyone has since been checked pregnant. Maybe the reason, but the weather has been pretty screwy the last couple of years, so not discounting anything.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1603609, member: 25884"] Although "milk fever" is usually an early lactation/post partum occurance it is possible but remotely so. However, they have been known to get late lactation milk fever which is actually low potassium in the blood stream. Again it mostly only happens in cows with dairy influence in them, but not unheard of in beef cattle. There are also other things that only a vet would think to look for. It may serve you well to have a vet out, do a blood sample to run and see if there is something lacking. If there is, it could also affect the other animals. Could be that there is something lacking in the grass this year, or the hay. Last year when we were so wet, the cows did not put on the condition that they normally do. Had more than we would have come up open. Vet thought it was because the grass was so "washy" as in so much fast growth and not as much nutrition in it. He thought they were lacking in magnesium. We have upped the mag in the mineral and nearly everyone has since been checked pregnant. Maybe the reason, but the weather has been pretty screwy the last couple of years, so not discounting anything. [/QUOTE]
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