When producers talk about hypocalcemia today, the focus has shifted to subclinical hypocalcemia. Unlike clinical milk fever, it’s a disease that doesn’t show any visible signs. “You can’t determine ...

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Some 12,000,000 people in the U.S. are infected with the germs of a strange, lingering, milk-borne disease called undulant fever (brucellosis).* So wrote Health Officer Harold Jerome Harris of ...

I am a worried dairy farmer. Of my six dairy animals, four have suffered from milk fever. What can I do to prevent this disease from recurring on my farm? [David Kamau, Ndenderu, Kiambu County] Dear ...

Many years producers are calving during the early spring with cows grazing lush pastures. When cows that have just calved are grazing cool-season annual pastures producers often find mature cows that ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Cows that suffer from calcium deficiency are also more susceptible to other reproductive ...