Epidemiological Survey of Subclinical Ketosis in Lactating Cattle

摘要

Sub-clinical ketosis is defined as elevated concentrations of circulating ketone bodies in absence of clinical signs. It causes economic losses through decreased milk production, impaired reproductive performance, increased risk of displaced abo-masumand higher risk of clinical ketosis. Thus in the present work, the occurrence of subclinical ketosis was studied on 200 post parturient cattle belonging to livestock farm Adhartal and private dairy farms at Jabalpur. The results revealed an overall occurrence of subclinical ketosis to be 20%, whereas, on the basis of days post partum it was found to be maximum i (62.5%) on day 20th. The parity wise results indicated i that maximum (37.5%) cattle suffered with sub clinical ketosis were in 5th parity.