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Metabolic diseases

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2010

J. R. Todd
J. R. Todd
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Chemical and Animal Nutrition Research Division, Ministry of Agriculture for Northern Ireland
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The most important metabolic disease associated with intensive grassland production and utilization in Northern Ireland is grass tetany. Grass tetany or hypomagnesaemic tetany was recognized in the early decades of this century in Europe and probably appeared in the British Isles in the early 1920's. There has been a steady increase in incidence over the years, and this would seem to be related to an increase in productivity, both in terms of output from the animal and from pasture.

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54th Meeting, Coventry, 27 to 29 March 1972 Symposium: Animal Production From Grassland
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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production (1972) , Volume 1 , January 1972 , pp. 93 - 97
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Copyright © British Society of Animal Production 1972

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