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| I cant give you suggestions on getting the cow up, but I have had problems with "downer cows" in the past. If it is not age, poisonous plants etc. I would suggest taking a forage sample of your feeds.
If you have additional cows go down, my suggestion would be to draw blood before treatment and have it analyzed by your Vet.
My experience was the following:
The affected cows showed low levels of calcium indicating occurrence of milk fever. Symptoms, however, were not consistent with milk fever suggesting that some other complications may have been occurring at the same time.
Forage samples were collected results indicated a high level of potassium in feedstuffs being fed to cows.
Excess K has been related to milk fever and magnesium deficiencies in beef cows. Typically these problems occur when dry cows are fed high K forages during the last 3 to 4 weeks before calving. Nearly all of the potassium found in forages is available to the animal. | |
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Beef Cow with Milk Fever
