Secadera

A Nutritional Wasting Disease in Cattle Grazing Acidic, Sulfur-Deficient, Tropical Savannas

Authors

  • C. H. Mullenax Rural Development Institute, Agricultural Resource Center, University of Wisconsin-River Falls, River Falls, WI, USA 54022
  • L. E. Baumann Rural Development Institute, Agricultural Resource Center, University of Wisconsin-River Falls, River Falls, WI, USA 54022
  • L. R. McDowell Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences University of Florida Gainesville, FL, USA 32611-0691
  • B. B. Norman Cooperative Extension, Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA, USA 95616.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19926488

Keywords:

Wasting diseases, nutrition, management systems, domestic livestock

Abstract

Wasting diseases of nutritional origin in domestic livestock are infrequently seen under systems of modern management. They are seen, however, in animals grazed under extensive management systems, particularly in cattle maintained solely on tropical forages grown on low-fertility acidic soils. Secadera is one of the wasting diseases which occur in the South American tropics1,2,3,4. This report, which further characterizes the disease and its treatment, is based on research conducted in the oxisol savannas of the Altillanura, the least fertile area of the Llanos Orientales (Eastern Plains) of Colombia.

Cover image of the Second Volume of the 25th Conference Proceedings: An earl-morning photo of farmland. A small farm is nestled among rolling hills, fields stretching across a curving road that disappears between dark green trees. The barn is a cheery red color with a tin roof. Beneath the photo is the a statement of the conference's theme in white italics: Challenges of the Bovine Industry in the Twenty-First Century. Deep red background.

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Published

1992-08-31

Issue

1992: Volume 2

Section

Metabolic / Nutrition / Toxicology