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Hypocalcemia upon calving — commonly called milk fever — remains a common, if treatable, health problem among high-producing dairy cows.

Milk fever is a production disease, meaning that as milk production increases the prevalence and severity of milk fever generally increases as well.

When producers talk about hypocalcemia today, the focus has shifted to subclinical hypocalcemia. Unlike clinical milk fever, it’s a disease that doesn’t show any visible signs.

A classic clinical milk fever can present as a down cow unable to rise with cold extremities, an S-shaped neck turned into face her body and overall loss of muscle tone which can lead to fatal bloat.

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Those are early signs of both grass tetany and milk fever. Both of those metabolic diseases are common in adult cows that have recently calved.

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