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Title: PHOSPHORUS DEFICIENCY

Author
item GOFF, JESSE

Submitted to: Book Chapter
Publication Type: Book / Chapter
Publication Acceptance Date: 8/1/1997
Publication Date: N/A
Citation: N/A

Interpretive Summary:

Technical Abstract: This chapter will deal with the diseases of cows, sheep, and goats that are the result of a disturbance in phosphorus metabolism. These diseases include rickets, infertility and poor growth, and the downer cow syndrome. They usually affect pastured animals, and are the result of abnormally low blood phosphorus concentration. The chapter will review the physiological disturbances caused by low blood phosphorus levels, why low blood phosphorus concentrations develop, and methods for the practicing clinician to diagnose these disorders. Current methods to treat these disorders are presented for veterinary practitioners. Much of the chapter is devoted to measures that can be used to prevent these disorders. Among these are methods to increase dietary phosphorus ingestion through special supplements and management of pastures to increase plant phosphorus content. The veterinary professional reading this chapter will have an up-to-date manual these common disorders of phosphorus metabolism in cattle, sheep, and goats.