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Faster Horses - Hi Mag Mineral???

hypocalcaemic milk fever
hypomagnesaemic grass tetany

Muscles
Milk fever: prostration of the muscular system.
Grass tetany: muscle stiffness, contractions of the tail.

Muzzle
Milk fever, mouth hardly open.
Grass tetany: mouth closed and difficult to open; grinding of teeth; in general, frothing of the mouth.

Eyes
Milk fever: sleepy eyes.
Grass tetany: wild, blood-shot eyes, frequently rolling.

Head
Milk fever: thrown to the side.
Grass tetany: thrown back.

Sensitivity
Milk fever: diminished.
Grass tetany: much greater

Pulse
Milk fever: vigorous and slightly increased.
Grass tetany: feeble and much more rapid.

Udder
Milk fever: soft.
Grass tetany: more or less normal, no excessive softness.

Temperature
Milk fever: low.
Grass tetany: normal or high.

IF a grazing animal is attacked by convulsions more than 10 days after calving the chances that it is suffering from hypomagnesaemic grass tetany are great. If, on the other hand, the convulsive manifestations appear less than 5 days after calving it is probably a case of hypocalcaemic milk fever.
 
One of these threads on muneral talked about a nieghbor not feeding mineral and got me to thinkin....I guess you have 2 choices...Feed it or raise cows that don't need it....Feeding would be cheaper than going thru all that to try to get this. Besides, where are you goin to get bulls that will throw calves not needing it.


I think the first thing thatgoes in low mineral is breedback closely followed by Immunity,


PPRM
 
PPRM, I hate to beat a dead horse to death, but I might anyway. :wink:

I am not advocating others to not feed mineral, but we do not see the problems you talked about.

Last year the bulls went in our cows July 1. If you went by the book, that means the cows ought to start calving around Apr. 10. Today on the 13th of April, I counted over 45 calves already in one herd of 180 cows. And those were just the ones I happened to see. Another bunch of the same cows has at least that high of percentage calved out. These cows had a short breeding season, and no mineral. I went over this earlier in my post.

Not saying you should do it the way we do, but it works for us.

Our young cows, who do get some mineral, bred back well, but less than 10% of them have calved so far. This is 3 and a few 4 year old cows so that may be some of it.

A lot of worrying is done about things that may not need to be.
 
A mineral program will have little effect on a herd that hasn't got a specific mineral deficency.

A herd that has scours or pneumonia on a regular basis has some type of mineral problem causing a lower immunity.

Feed has minerals in it. The more we ask our cows to do highlights the weakness in the levels of those minerals.
 
I wouldn't even try going without a mineral program. Have seen too much positive from it. I sure missed a lot of reading in the last couple weeks. I loaned my computer out quite awhile ago and didn't miss it, got it back tonight and then decided to sell it to him. Maybe next winter will have to invest in another. So see ya next winter maybe :D . So Happy Easter, Happy 4th, Thanksgiving and maybe Christmas.
 
Seeing lots of Turkeys. I said last couple weeks of reading, I meant last couple months. There is a book here to get caught up, but bet it like Days of Our Lives, you can miss it for 10 years and pick up right where you left off. My wife used to watch it, people would die, then I would see it 5 years later and ask her why they were back on the show if they were dead. She never could explain it to me.
 

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