Estimated Economic Losses due to Downer Cow Syndrome in Bovines in Tamil Nadu
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2014-07
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Abstract
A downer cow is one, down for at least
24 hours without apparent reason for being
down. Different terminologies used to describe
this syndrome are ‘downers', ‘alert downers',
‘atypical milk fever’ or ‘creeper cows’ and 'fat
cow syndrome' Downer cow diseases are
complications resulting from milk fever with
demonstrable muscle, tendon or nerve injuries.
For the present study, 67 downer cow
syndrome affected dairy animals either cow or
buffalo were selected through simple random
sampling technique from Namakkal and Karur
districts of Tamil Nadu.
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TNV_SNLX_2014_2(1)11-14
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Veterinary Science