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    This document discusses bovine recumbency, or downer cow syndrome, which occurs when a cow is unable to stand after calving. The main causes are metabolic disorders like hypocalcemia, hypomagnesemia, and hypophosphatemia, or non-metabolic issues like calving paralysis, sciatic nerve damage, or pelvic or limb fractures sustained during difficult calving. Clinical signs include the cow being alert but unable to stand after repeated attempts, lying in a lateral recumbency with the head down, or abducting both hind limbs due to obturator nerve paralysis. Treatment involves slaughter for cows with a poor prognosis, while others receive good management including soft bedding, food and water

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    This document discusses bovine recumbency, or downer cow syndrome, which occurs when a cow is unable to stand after calving. The main causes are metabolic disorders like hypocalcemia, hypomagnesemia, and hypophosphatemia, or non-metabolic issues like calving paralysis, sciatic nerve damage, or pelvic or limb fractures sustained during difficult calving. Clinical signs include the cow being alert but unable to stand after repeated attempts, lying in a lateral recumbency with the head down, or abducting both hind limbs due to obturator nerve paralysis. Treatment involves slaughter for cows with a poor prognosis, while others receive good management including soft bedding, food and water

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    Downer Cow Syndrome

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    Morad Imad
    This document discusses bovine recumbency, or downer cow syndrome, which occurs when a cow is unable to stand after calving. The main causes are metabolic disorders like hypocalcemia, hypomagnesemia, and hypophosphatemia, or non-metabolic issues like calving paralysis, sciatic nerve damage, or pelvic or limb fractures sustained during difficult calving. Clinical signs include the cow being alert but unable to stand after repeated attempts, lying in a lateral recumbency with the head down, or abducting both hind limbs due to obturator nerve paralysis. Treatment involves slaughter for cows with a poor prognosis, while others receive good management including soft bedding, food and water

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    Bilateral obturator nerve paralysis which developed after dystocia ch`ch` frog like position (both hind limb

    b extended & reach the elbow of fore limb

    Secondary hip or femoral damage

    **it means any cow in sternal recumbency for more than 24 hr without systemic disease , also unable to stand after 2 treatment with Ca therapy **it is most common to occur in 1st 2-3 days after calving

    Causes

    Metabolic causes
    -hypocalcemia -hypomagnesemia -hypophosphatemia

    Non-metabolic
    -calving paralysis -sciatic nerve damage -fructure of pelvis or limb

    Clinical signs
    1-creeper cow (the affected cows are bright , alert , eat , & drink well , defecate & urinate normally but unable to stand after frequent trial to stand) 2-lateral recumbency + head down back bad prognosis 3-abduction of both hind limb obturator nerve paralysis

    Treatment
    1- all cow of bad prognosis slaughter 2-good management of the recumbent cow (very very important): a-provide soft bedding b-provide continuous food & water c-provide change of animal position (from site to site) 3-treatment of the primary metabolic cause (as in each disease in details)

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