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dairyman
Joined: 11 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 11:03 pm Post subject: soil eating calves |
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| Doc, At times we find that some calves while grazing they do eat mud or earth.Is this due tue to worm infestation? Are they lacking minerals?At times even adult cows does this.How can we overcome this.Glad if u could clarify this .Thank U. |
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Dr csh
Joined: 21 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 10:29 am Post subject: |
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| It is not due to worm infestation. Certainly a mineral deficiency would be a logical explanation. How to overcome this... well, you can do feed analysis to see what is deficient but is this soil/mud eating causing problems like impactions? |
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