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<blockquote data-quote="regolith" data-source="post: 1360352" data-attributes="member: 9267"><p>Like everything, individual responses are different.</p><p>I think an experienced producer like yourself would have spotted the other signs in a downer that indicate milk fever - but it's possible she had it and the signs weren't there. It's also quite likely something else was going on and calcium wouldn't have been enough anyway.</p><p>The classic is the posture of the head when they're down - starts as a curve in the neck (S-bend), as they get weaker they turn their head back into their shoulder, shortly after that they lay flat out, then start to bloat; it's at that point they're in real danger because the stomach fluids coming back up will choke them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="regolith, post: 1360352, member: 9267"] Like everything, individual responses are different. I think an experienced producer like yourself would have spotted the other signs in a downer that indicate milk fever - but it's possible she had it and the signs weren't there. It's also quite likely something else was going on and calcium wouldn't have been enough anyway. The classic is the posture of the head when they're down - starts as a curve in the neck (S-bend), as they get weaker they turn their head back into their shoulder, shortly after that they lay flat out, then start to bloat; it's at that point they're in real danger because the stomach fluids coming back up will choke them. [/QUOTE]
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