Hypocupraemia in Dairy Cows

Abstract

Although Neal, Becker & Shealy (193 I) appear to have been the first to suggest that deficiency of copper occurs naturally in livestock, it was Sjollema (1933) who first described a disease of plants and animals in parts of Holland which could be controlled by administration of copper. In cattle, goats and sheep the disease, a form of 'Lecksucht ', was characterized by anorexia, emaciation, anaemia and diarrhoea.