Non-protein nitrogen compound poisoning in cattle

Acorn poisoning in cattle.

Ten cows in a suckler herd totalling 60 sickened after grazing parkland which was heavily covered with acorns. Two died. The main clinical signs were dullness, anorexia and constipation. The main pathological findings were severe nephrosis and some intestinal ulceration. After removal to an acorn-free pasture, the remaining eight animals made a full recovery.

Experimental cattle Bracken poisoning In Northen parts of Iran

Pathology of Natural and Experimental Lead Poisoning in Cattle.

The effect of protein- and non-protein-nitrogen supplements to maize silage on total amino acid supply in young cattle.

I . A total of six diets based on maize silage were formulated to examine the effect of proteinand non-protein-nitrogen, and energy supplementation on the flow of amino acids to the small intestine and the synthesis of microbial amino acids in the rumen of growing cattle. All diets contained 24 g total nitrogen (N)/kg dry matter (DM), of which 550 g N/kg total N was supplied by either urea or f...

Nutritional Importance of Non-protein Nitrogen

The class of compounds called non-protein nitrogen (NPN) is not a homogeneous group of similar chemicals but rather an operational term for the remainder of nitrogen in milk and formula once the protein fraction has been removed. NPN therefore consists of widely diverse types of compounds, ranging from urea to complex nitrogen-containing oligosaccharides. It is obvious that the capacity of an i...