Definition and Etiology Ketosis is a multifactorial disorder of energy metabolism in high yielding dairy animals after calving. The negative energy balance (NEB) results in hypoglycaemia, ketonemia (accumulation of acetoacetate, β-hydroxybutyrate and acetone in blood) and ketonuria. The causal factors of ketosis are (i) dietary factors (starvation/loss of appetite or feeding of low carbohydrate diet/excess […]
Production/Metabolic Diseases
Milk Fever
Definition and Etiology Milk fever – also known as parturient paresis, hypocalcaemia, paresis puerperalis, parturient apoplexy – is a condition of adult dairy animals wherein severe deficiency of calcium (acute hypocalcaemia) causes acute to per acute, afebrile, f flaccid paralysis most commonly at or just after parturition. Dairy animals are at considerable risk for hypocalcaemia […]
