Spring is a busy time for producers, balancing fieldwork and calving season. Unfortunately, some tasks may slip through the ...

Ensuring livestock receive a balanced and adequate mineral intake is essential for optimal health and productivity.

It's very common every spring to hear about suckler cows going down with Tetany, writes ruminant nutritionist Brian Reidy ...

Data on govt hospitals was part of a report on Heat-Health Preparedness & Response Activities, put together by NCDC's National Programme on Climate Change & Human Health.

I suspect most cattle producers have their herds on some type of overseed right now. I know the temperatures are bouncing up and down like a pogo stick, might be showing my age ...

“Heat-related illnesses include (from mild to severe)-heat rash (prickly heat), heat oedema (swelling of hands, feet and ankles), heat cramps (muscle cramps), heat tetany, heat syncope (fainting), ...

Hypoparathyroidism means your body doesn't have enough parathyroid hormone (PTH). PTH is made in your parathyroid glands, four pea-sized lobes in your neck. PTH controls calcium, so you'll ...

HYPOCALCEMIC tetany has been noted in the offspring of 13 mothers with primary hyperparathyroidism since the initial description by Friderichsen in 1938. 1 Transplacental passage of the maternal ...

As spring nears and grass begins to turn green, producers are anxious to get cows out to grass. However, cool season predominate areas tend to have lush spring growth which can lead to grass tetany in ...

Grass growth is starting and one potential problem that can be encountered early in the grazing season by livestock is grass tetany, sometimes called grass staggers. Grass tetany is caused by a low ...