A prospective follow up study was conducted in Addis Ababa town attends on different selected farms for fifteen months from January 2015 to April 2016. The aims of this study were to determine the current status of parturient paresis, associated risk factors, and to estimate the economic loss of parturient paresis that is attributed in dairy herds. Parturient paresis is a condition of third to ...

MILK FEVER, also called parturient paresis and parturient hypocalcemia, is an aifection of cows occurring shortly after calving. It is characterized by paralysis of the motor and sensory nervous apparatus. Despite its name, milk fever usually is not accompanied by fever. There is always, however, a marked and rapid lowering of the blood calcium, so that the name "parturient hypocalcemia," which...