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I was scratching my head as well.retained foetal membranes perhaps??
DCAD is another
TFP is the one i do know
I was scratching my head as well.retained foetal membranes perhaps??
How do you know if the DCAD was too low if you don't check the cows. Feeds are variable.
20 or even 30 or more days on negative DCAD hasn't been shown to cause problems so it's not likely that. Ideally you want them on it for more than 20 days.
Our vets advice was the urine pH is not particularly reliable indicator of the dcad levels in the diet, especially when you are feeding pasture in part of the diet. They were getting a couple of kgs of irrigated well fertilised rye grass so again I think the chances of the dcad being too low (and can you tell me how low is too low?) are slim. Also if that were the case we should have seen cases across the board not just those that calved after being on the transition diet too long?
I was scratching my head as well.
DCAD is another
TFP is the one i do know
Don't think anyone is going to tell us ..
And DCAD is the same meaning just difference instead of balanceDCAB........Dietary Cat-ion An-ion Balance.......I think
I was told today if you feed a dcad diet for longer than 24 days before calving your going to get problems I was feeding them32 days before calving as some were a bit thin it's ok too feed concentrate it's just the anionic salts