Previous studies have indicated that low-calcium high-phosphorus prepartal diets will lower the incidence of milk fever (parturient paresis) in dairy cattle. It was suggested that such diets exert their effect by causing parathyroid stimulation, thus providing sufficient calcium mobilizing hormone to avert the drop of blood calcium resulting from the initiation of lactation (1).
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