Beef Cattle Nutritional Disorders

Beef Cattle Nutritional Disorders

Mississippi State University

Nutritional disorders in beef cattle can result in poor animal health, lowered production, and even animal losses. The National Animal Health Monitoring System reports that 7 percent of beef cattle death losses in the southeast U.S. in 2005 were caused by digestive problems such as bloat and acidosis. Death losses from digestive problems increased as herd size decreased.

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