Green pasture can mean rise in cases of milk fever

Updated June 18 2019 - 8:58pm, first published 8:30am
GREEN GRASS: Hypocalcaemia usually occured in sheep feed including rapidly growing pasture and green cereal crops,
GREEN GRASS: Hypocalcaemia usually occured in sheep feed including rapidly growing pasture and green cereal crops,

Sheep producers with pregnant ewes have been warning that cases of hypocalcaemia, or milk fever, a deficiency of calcium in the blood, were expected at this time of year.

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