Hypocalcemia in grazing ewes in relation to pregnancy and parturition [a clinical report]

Acute hypocalcaemia [HCa] was diagnosed in 77 out of 600 ewes grazed on stubbles of corn, rice and cotton shrubs for about 30 days with no additional grains or concentrates. Affected ewes were severely depressed with excessive salivation, ruminal stasis and bloat. Antipartum vaginal prolapse of various degrees and weak labour were observed in 14 affected ewes. The propable cause and the results of hormonal and /or surgical treatment in addition to Ca therapy were discussed

Postparturient haemoglobinuria and hypophosphataemia in dairy cows due to feeding of beet pulp and berseem

Hypophosphatemia was tentatively diagnosed in a local dairy herd of Holstein cows. The history of the herd revealed that dried beet pulp replaced about 70% of the concentrate mixture and fed with berseem before the occurrence of the disease. Milk yield was sharply declined and the clinically manifested symptoms were loss of appetite, urine discoloration [from yellowish to red-brown color], with a slightly elevated body temperature and increased pulse and respiration rates. The disease occurred 2-3 weeks after calving and six cows showed hemoglobinuria. Analysis of the serum samples of the affected cows for inorganic phosphorus [Pi], phosphorus [P] therapy and correction of the ration, in addition to analysis of feed samples for P content confirmed the diagnosis