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title: Field nutritionist’s voice on pre-calving cow health
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# Field nutritionist’s voice on pre-calving cow health

Published on **15-04-2021** - By **Kemin**

- [Pre-calving Health](https://info.kemin.com/en/lifelonglearningtool/blog/tag/pre-calving-health)

Compromised immunity and decreased muscle tone due to calcium deficiency can be associated with increased incidence of retained foetal membranes in dairy cows. Kemin’s formulating ruminant health programme for pre-calving cows (last 21 days before calving) in which the diets were made acidogenic with NutriCAB™, the incidence of retained foetal membranes reduced from 28.7 % to 5.4% (average of 4 farms).

## The incidence of retained foetal membranes

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Graph: Changes in the incidences of retained foetal membranes after the introduction of NutriCAB

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