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Milk Fever from clover
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<blockquote data-quote="regolith" data-source="post: 925290" data-attributes="member: 9267"><p>That's good theory when you've got housed dairy cows and full control of their diet. I've always been a bit dubious whether it's actually possible to drop the calcium intake low enough in grassfed dry cows to cause the bone calcium to start circulating, regardless of how much/little clover is in the pasture.</p><p>A few vets I've spoken to reckon using the chloride/sulphate forms of magnesium pre-calving and supplementing with both calcium and magnesium after calving is having good results. Some farmers use a 'starter drench' on every mature freshly calved cow, I don't know how many do that though and how much is advertising and how much is effective prevention... you know if a cow's going to go down she's usually going to go down before her first trip to the milking shed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="regolith, post: 925290, member: 9267"] That's good theory when you've got housed dairy cows and full control of their diet. I've always been a bit dubious whether it's actually possible to drop the calcium intake low enough in grassfed dry cows to cause the bone calcium to start circulating, regardless of how much/little clover is in the pasture. A few vets I've spoken to reckon using the chloride/sulphate forms of magnesium pre-calving and supplementing with both calcium and magnesium after calving is having good results. Some farmers use a 'starter drench' on every mature freshly calved cow, I don't know how many do that though and how much is advertising and how much is effective prevention... you know if a cow's going to go down she's usually going to go down before her first trip to the milking shed. [/QUOTE]
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