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<blockquote data-quote="Mark Reynolds" data-source="post: 1833388" data-attributes="member: 43196"><p>You will be safe from tetany when cutting the hay in June. Theoretically it could happen in June, but haven't ever heard of it occurring then and wouldn't ever expect the conditions to even remotely come close to being correct for tetany to occur then. I apologize as I hadn't seen you post about hay or tetany in June. Grass tetany results from a insufficient uptake of magnesium by plants during and because of periods of rapid plant growth. The resulting low magnesium content in the grass (during the rapid spring greenup, exacerbated by added nitrogen to increase quick forage production in the spring) results in a deficiency of magnesium in the animal and an imbalance with calcium, which can and often is fatal but can quickly be reversed with an injection of (I think) calcium by a veterinarian with no long term negative effects, if administered quickly enough.</p><p></p><p>A quick scan of the literature shows that grass tetany has been known to occur when livestock is fed baleage from certain forages, although I have never heard of that happening.</p><p></p><p>I worked with a producer one time that applied nitrogen to his spring pastures and suffered the consequences so to speak. The producer contacted the vet quickly enough and the vet saved at least 3 cows that were showing symptoms to various degrees, but the producer lost 4 cows within what the producer estimates to be a period of two hours......out of a herd size of 27.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mark Reynolds, post: 1833388, member: 43196"] You will be safe from tetany when cutting the hay in June. Theoretically it could happen in June, but haven't ever heard of it occurring then and wouldn't ever expect the conditions to even remotely come close to being correct for tetany to occur then. I apologize as I hadn't seen you post about hay or tetany in June. Grass tetany results from a insufficient uptake of magnesium by plants during and because of periods of rapid plant growth. The resulting low magnesium content in the grass (during the rapid spring greenup, exacerbated by added nitrogen to increase quick forage production in the spring) results in a deficiency of magnesium in the animal and an imbalance with calcium, which can and often is fatal but can quickly be reversed with an injection of (I think) calcium by a veterinarian with no long term negative effects, if administered quickly enough. A quick scan of the literature shows that grass tetany has been known to occur when livestock is fed baleage from certain forages, although I have never heard of that happening. I worked with a producer one time that applied nitrogen to his spring pastures and suffered the consequences so to speak. The producer contacted the vet quickly enough and the vet saved at least 3 cows that were showing symptoms to various degrees, but the producer lost 4 cows within what the producer estimates to be a period of two hours......out of a herd size of 27. [/QUOTE]
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