MILK FEVER IN OSMANABADI DOE

Milk fever or parturient hypocalcaemia is a metabolic disease occuring most commonly about the time of parturition in adult females and is c haracterized by hypocalcaemia, changes in neuro-muscular tone, recumbe ncy circulatory collapse and diminution of consciousness (Chakrabarti, 1988). It is a most common condition in high yielding dairy cows. But , occasional cases may occur in ewes, does and sows (Blood and Radosti ts, 1989; Banerjee, 1988). The present communication reports a case of milk fever in an Osmanabadi goat.