Knowledge of the composition of blood from normal dairy cattle under typical feeding and managemental practices is requisite to the diagnosis of many metabolic disorders. Considerable investigation has been directed toward ascertaining normal values for many of the blood constituents of adult cows in various stages of the reproductive cycle, but, with the exception of carotenoids and of vitamin A, little attention has been given to determinations of the changes that normally occur in the composition of the blood of calves during the critical periods of early postnatal development.
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Wise et al. (1947) studied this question.
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