Gold Coast. Looks like one of my Galloway cow (550kg) has, Laminitis. Has been limping for one week now. Cows are in a paddock but grass is growing slowly now (grass mix of rye, millet, kikuyu, carpet grass. I give each cow an additional 1/4 biscuit of barley hay. Could that cause acidosis?

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Gold Coast. Looks like one of my Galloway cow (550kg) has, Laminitis. Has been limping for one week now. Cows are in a paddock but grass is growing slowly now (grass mix of rye, millet, kikuyu, carpet grass. I give each cow an additional 1/4 biscuit of barley hay. Could that cause acidosis?

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Dr. Md Rushad Rahman · Answer 1 · Jan 25, 2015 07:12:42

Have your cow checked out by a veterinarian to determine whether it actually is laminitis or something else like foot-rot, a corm in the hoof, a leg injury, etc. The barley "hay" (is this greenfeed or straw?) will not cause acidosis. What will cause acidosis is an excess of high-energy feed like grain, as mentioned in the article above. The fibre in the greenfeed will prevent acidosis from occurring because it is in high fibre.

Gold Coast. Looks like one of my Galloway cow (550kg) has, Laminitis. Has been limping for one week now. Cows are in a paddock but grass is growing slowly now (grass mix of rye, millet, kikuyu, carpet grass. I give each cow an additional 1/4 biscuit of barley hay. Could that cause acidosis?

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