title: Husbandry methods predisposing to production diseases in dairy cows.
abstract: Errors in management, other than nutrition, which can be predisposing causes of disease, eg, walking on abrasive surfaces and prolonged standing in slurry (which precipitate lameness), faulty milking and a dirty environment (which are conducive to mastitis), breeding to produce oversized fetuses (leading to dystocia) and inefficient observation (leading to a failure to detect oestrus) are described. Nutritional factors affecting conception rates and the occurrence of the metabolic diseases, ketosis, hypocalcaemia and hypomagnesaemia are outlined.
mesh_terms: D000822:Animal Husbandry; D000824:Animal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D002418:Cattle Diseases / Q000097:blood / Q000209:etiology*; D004420:Dystocia / Q000209:etiology; D004972:Estrus Detection / Q000662:veterinary; D005260:Female; D005298:Fertility; D006996:Hypocalcemia / Q000209:etiology / Q000662:veterinary; D007662:Ketosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000662:veterinary; D007794:Lameness, Animal / Q000209:etiology; D008274:Magnesium / Q000097:blood; D008414:Mastitis, Bovine / Q000209:etiology; D011247:Pregnancy
chemical_list: D008274:Magnesium