Dietary risk factors

LEFT - SIDE DISPLACEMENT OF THE ABOMASUM

Dietary risk factors

  • Negative energy balance prepartum, High body condition scores, suboptimal feed management, prepartum diets containing >1.65 Mcal of NE/kg of DM, winter and summer sea­sons, high genetic merit, and low parity hepatic lipido­sis
  • High-level grain feeding
  • A crude fiber concentration < 16-17% in the diet of dairy cows 
  • Feeding rations high in carbohydrates,
  • Inadequate levels of roughage
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