RECOMMENDED PROCEDURE TO BOVINE PRACTITIO NERS IN CASE OF HERD PROBLEMS CAUSED BY FEEDING FAULTS

This paper is an aid for bovine practitioners who are confronted with herd health problems that may be caused by faults in feeding, by lacki ng quality of ingredients or the used concentrates or the ration in ge neral. In the beginning of those cases there are suspicious facts only that have to be critically evaluated and checked by the veterinarian. Methods and procedure to be concerned are described briefly, especial ly for the reason that eventually recourse is in discussion. Potential ly liable to recourse is the producer of the concentrate or the supple ment, if marked deviations in their composition or quality are found. The information needed by the veterinarian derive from an intensive an amnesis, sensoric evaluation of feeds offered to the herd, calculation of the energy and nutrient supply, clinical investigations of sufferi ng cattle and from investigations of feeds arranged by the veterinaria n. Even if the details of anamnesis and further methods are not descri bed in this paper, considering the principles summarized here should d efend the practitioner from blunders that can often be observed in suc h cases.