How to recognise
Poor metabolic and digestive adaptation during the transition period results in metabolic stress, which impairs the adaptation of the immune system and increases the incidence of metabolic diseases that drive:
- Increased risk of developing sub-clinical or clinical ketosis
- Increased risk of fatty liver
- High incidence of milk fever, increased incidence of retained placenta and infections of the reproductive tract.
- Increased incidence of mastitis
- Increased risk of hindgut acidosis
- High incidence of leaky gut
- Poor production and fertility
- High early culling rates (during the first 100 days in milk)
- Decreased cow longevity
