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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 727599" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>Top rule-out on my list would be BVD.</p><p>Lupines catch a lot of blame - even in areas of the country where they don't even grow - like the entire Southeast.</p><p>Other potentially teratogenic plants are out there, and are common(Conium spp. most common in TN/KY), but in most cases, cows won't consume them unless there's not much else available - but, IF they ARE the problem, they were consumed during the first weeks of pregancy, and any residual/detectible toxic components are long gone; they exert their deformative effects early in fetal development, when limb buds/spine/cranial bones are first forming.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 727599, member: 12607"] Top rule-out on my list would be BVD. Lupines catch a lot of blame - even in areas of the country where they don't even grow - like the entire Southeast. Other potentially teratogenic plants are out there, and are common(Conium spp. most common in TN/KY), but in most cases, cows won't consume them unless there's not much else available - but, IF they ARE the problem, they were consumed during the first weeks of pregancy, and any residual/detectible toxic components are long gone; they exert their deformative effects early in fetal development, when limb buds/spine/cranial bones are first forming. [/QUOTE]
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