What are Downer cows?

Downer's cows are cows that seem to be able to rise, usually due to injury or illness. The prognosis for the cow varies; Some of them can be treated, regain full health and continue living healthy and active life. Others, however, cannot move because they are in the final stages of a serious illness, or because they were catastrophically injured, and humane defeat is the best choice. Downer's cows were a problem in the history of beef domestication, but began to attract extensive interest at the 90s, because of concerns about beef spongiform encephalitis (BSE), which can cause health problems in humans. The video showed the abuse of dairy cows in an effort to get them to be defeated, because US laws limit the use of meat from cows of downward lower, fear of food supply. If the cow cannot be worn or walked, US laws prohibit the killing of food, which means that the cow value is dramatically reduced. As a result, many slaughterhouses that manipulate such cows

One of the most common reasons why a cow becomes a descent is a condition called hypocalcemia, characterized by not getting enough calcium. In these cases, the cow may descend a magnificent recovery after injecting calcium. Some cows become descending after delivery after delivery, in which case the condition may be related to complications of pregnancy, which could be potentially treated. In other cases, the cow has been injured, by a classically breaking leg, or may have a more serious or non -following disease from which it cannot recover.

For milk farmers, descent cows are extremely frustrating. Many milk farmers try to treat a cow for several days if it is mDown, get the cow well enough to go to defeat or continue working for dairy products. If the cow cannot be forced to climb, there is only a small profit for defeat, because the meat must be easily thrown away.

Many countries have laws on good animal life conditions that apply to cow cows. These laws dictate that cows cannot be abused to force them to stand up and need not be dragged to defeat, and ideally are forced by agricultural inspectors who also ensure that such cows do not enter food supply. However, these laws may be difficult to enforce because these agencies often do not have enough inspectors to keep the cards on all national damiire Farms.