Milk Fever: A Comprehensive Overview

Now a day’s metabolic disorder is a major cause of concern in high yielding livestock. Out of many metabolic disorders, milk fever is one of the most important disorders which not only reduces the production performance of dairy animals but also create problems for other metabolic disease occurrence and infertility or repeat breeding like reproductive disorders in future. So, proper feeding management is prerequisite during advance pregnancy to reduce risk of milk fever. Metabolic profiling tests, which are using specific parameters known to be responsive to dietary intake, can be used to complement dietary evaluation of current feeding programme adequacy or a response to a feeding programme change. Blood Ca⁺² and serum Ca⁺² in all (normal parturient and recumbent) cattle should be within the range of 0.22–1.22 mmol/L and 2.81–10.91 mg/dl, respectively.