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Do cows get sick

Updated: 11/8/2022
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Yes. The diseases found in cattle are the following:

  • milk fever
  • shipping fever (BRDC or Bovine Respiratory Disease Complex)
  • tick fever (Texas fever)
  • anaplasmosis
  • dystocia
  • mastitis
  • tuberculosis
  • blackleg
  • pink eye
  • grass tetany (extr. fatal if not caught early)
  • foot-and-mouth disease
  • bloat
  • nitrate toxicity
  • bovine spongiform encephalopathy (often fatal, what caused the borders to close in 2003)
  • photosensitivity
  • acidosis
  • rabies
  • red water disease
  • bovine viral diarrhea
  • calf scours
  • brucellosis
  • calf diptheria
  • listeriosis
  • fescue toxicity
  • red nose
  • sleeper syndrome
  • johne's disease
  • leptospirosis
  • lumpy jaw/wooden tongue
  • malignant edema
  • metritis
  • navel infection
  • pneumonia
  • polioencephalomalacia (also called forage poisoning)
  • tetanus
  • vaginitis
  • vibronic abortion
  • warts
  • winter dysentery
  • ketosis
  • anemia
  • aphosporosis
  • crooked calves
  • founder
  • iodine deficiency
  • molybdenum toxicity
  • osteomalacia
  • pine needle abortion
  • rickets
  • salt deficiency
  • salt sick
  • selenium poisoning
  • sweet clover disease
  • urinary calculi
  • vitamin A deficiency
  • white muscle disease
  • cancer eye

and the list goes on.
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