Blood profiles as indicators of nutritional status

Metabolic profiles can nutritional status when evaluations can be used to a ssess individual animal or used in conjunction with animal and or herd rati on To assess a fresh cow problem, one should collect samples from far off dry, close-up dry, and fresh cows. Pooled blood samples can be used to minimize costs. Interpretation of pooled samples can not be accomplished in the same method as with individual samples.