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The magnesium nutrition of the dairy cow in relation to the development of hypomagnesaemia in the grazing animal
Author(s) -
Storry J. E.,
Rook J. A. F.
Publication year - 1962
Publication title -
journal of the science of food and agriculture
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.782
H-Index - 142
eISSN - 1097-0010
pISSN - 0022-5142
DOI - 10.1002/jsfa.2740131201
Subject(s) - magnesium , tetany , magnesium deficiency (plants) , grazing , calcium , lactation , phosphorus , zoology , biology , ruminant , chemistry , food science , endocrinology , agronomy , pasture , pregnancy , genetics , organic chemistry
Relative to the amount of magnesium deposited in the body each day in growth, or secreted each day in milk, the dietary supply of magnesium to the ruminant is invariably high, and as a consequence in the past much less attention has been given to the rǒle of magnesium in animal nutrition than to the rǒles of the sister elements, calcium and phosphorus. The increasing recognition that the hypomagnesaemia characteristic of the disorder of cattle known as ‚grass or lactation tetany’ or ‚grass staggers’ is due to a short‐term nutritional deficiency of magnesium has however, given a welcome impetus to studies on magnesium metabolism.