Open AccessSOME MINERAL DEFICIENCIES AND EXCESSES IN CATTLE AND SHEEP IN BRITAIN
Author(s) -
R. Allcroft
Publication year - 1956
Publication title -
proceedings of the new zealand grassland association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1179-4577
pISSN - 0369-3902
DOI - 10.33584/jnzg.1956.18.1062
Subject(s) - pasture , grazing , trace mineral , trace (psycholinguistics) , livestock , biology , zoology , agronomy , ecology , philosophy , linguistics
Although the production of good pasture is a starting point, one end point is a prime, healthy animal. lems At Weybridge, we have many animal health probassociated wrth the grazing of apparently good pastures, and it is some of these problems that I propose to discuss this afternoon: Because some of these disorders are not associated with a deficiency of minerals in the herbage itself, it may be misleading to refer to them merely as "trace element" or "mineral deficiency" diseases, which usually implies a deficient intake of some essential dietary constituent rather than a dysfunction of the mineral metabolism of the animal.