Cow grazing on rapidly grown pasture with tetany of the neck suggesting grass tetany
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Veterinary medicine
Grass tetany is a metabolic disease involving magnesium deficiency, which can occur in such ruminant livestock as beef cattle, dairy cattle and sheep,[1] usually after grazing on pastures of rapidly growing grass, especially in early spring.
^Mayland, H. F. 1988. Grass tetany. In: Church, D. C. (ed.). The ruminant animal: digestive physiology and nutrition. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N. J. pp. 511-523.
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