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Economic impact of subclinical hypocalcemia

February 24, 2021
Debra Nickelson
Before discussing subclinical hypocalcemia, it is helpful to review the more obvious disease of clinical hypocalcemia, or what everyone knows as milk fever. This disease can occur in mature dairy cows within three days after calving.
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Circadian pattern of blood energy metabolites – Timing matters

July 15, 2020
Claira Seely, Kathryn Bach, Dave Barbano, and Jessica McArt
When dairy cows transition from late gestation to early lactation, they often enter a state of energy deficit as increased energy demands are not met by the level of intake.
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Something is robbing your fresh cows’ calcium stores – and it’s not milk production

June 11, 2020
Nathan Upah
Late at night, after the drone of the pumps are quiet, every producer has wondered, “How could I get more out of my cows?” As most good questions do, this too leads to another question. “Nutritionally, what is holding fresh cows back from maximum production?”
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Subclinical hypocalcemia impacts cows and profitability

October 18, 2019
Tim Brown
Hypocalcemia impacts cows on all types of dairies. Historically, dairy producers have focused on clinical hypocalcemia, often called milk fever, because without treatment these cows don’t recover.
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Detoxifying free radicals to alleviate oxidative stress

June 11, 2019
David Krahn
Prevention and treatment of oxidative stress (OS) could be the solution to many of the dairy health, production and welfare issues of our time. Dr. Melissa Behr of the South Dakota State Diagnostic Lab believes “oxidative stress is the backbone of all diseases and cancer in mammals.”
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Keep your cows healthy by controlling stress

June 6, 2019
Bruce Derksen
Ensuring your cows are healthy will improve their productivity, longevity, fertility and resistance to disease, along with reducing the costs of upkeep. A key to this well-being is controlling and limiting their stress.
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