Dairy cows have complex nutritional needs and feeding accounts for one of the biggest costs of production. Matching nutrition to requirements at each stage of the production cycle is critical and can be challenging to meet. This module looks at the causes, presenting signs, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of common nutritional disorders of dairy cows, including Milk fever, hypophosphataemia, Grass staggers, SARA, Ketosis and displaced abomasums

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