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Minimum mineral requirements in cattle1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

A. Theiler ,
H. H. Green  and
P. J. Du Toit
A. Theiler
Affiliation:
(Division of Veterinary Education and Research, Union Department of Agriculture, Pretoria.)
H. H. Green
Affiliation:
(Division of Veterinary Education and Research, Union Department of Agriculture, Pretoria.)
P. J. Du Toit
Affiliation:
(Division of Veterinary Education and Research, Union Department of Agriculture, Pretoria.)
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1. Records are offered of year old cattle reared to adult weight on rations of varying content in respect to calcium, phosphorus, sodium, potassium and chlorine. Minimal requirements for growth are higher in the case of phosphorus than in the case of calcium, and a ratio of P2O5 to CaO so high as three to one is not necessarily disadvantageous. Sodium requirements for growth are very low, 2 gm. Na2O being more than sufficient. Chlorine requirements are below 5 gm. per day. A relatively high ratio of potassium to sodium is not productive of specific disease. There is no good reason to suppose that excess of basic over acidic constituents is necessary in a dietary, and cattle can grow normally to full adult weight when the usual alkaline reaction of the urine is shifted to the acid side.

2. Explanation of certain observed abnormalities in calving is left open, except in the case of phosphorus deficiency, in which definitely abnormal calves may be born.

3. “Aphosphorosis,” or clinically recognisable phosphorus deficiency disease, is experimentally produced, and shown to be identical with the naturally occurring South African disease Styfsiekte.

4. The chemical composition of the milk of animals suffering from aphosphorosis meed not mecessarily be abnormal, but the “inorganic” fraction of the blood may drop to a quarter of the normal value even before the disease can be diagnosed clinically. Other phosphorus compounds of the blood remain normally high. Blood calcium remains practically normal.

5. Vitamine deficiency of the diets had no adverse effect. Exogenous requirements of cattle for vitamines A, B, and C are so low that they are covered by a few pounds of poor quality roughage, and therefore do not enter into consideration under any natural system of cattle rearing.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , July 1927 , pp. 291 - 314
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1927

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