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Description
Mind Map by Greg Parkes, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Greg Parkes
almost 11 years ago
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Cobalt
- Requirement
- For synthesis of Vitamin B12 (Cobalamine)
- Not directly required
- For production of B12 to use in propionic acid
metabolism
- Gluconeogenesis converts Propionic Acid to Glucose
using B12 and Biotin
- Gluconeogenesis converts Propionic Acid to Glucose
using B12 and Biotin
- For synthesis of Vitamin B12 (Cobalamine)
- Deficency Symptoms
- Penicious Anaemia
- Loss of appetite
- Favours forage becuase cannot
metabolise propionic acid made from
concs.
- Negative feedback favours forage
- Favours forage becuase cannot
metabolise propionic acid made from
concs.
- Wasting
- Pines to death
- Penicious Anaemia
- Deficient
- Hill and upland country where soils
are acidic
- Likely if Co <0.1mg/kg DM in pasture
- Blood sample for
Methylmalonyl coenzyme
A - contains Co
- Hill and upland country where soils
are acidic
- Treatment
- Dose with CoSO4 bullets to allow release straight
into rumen so bugs can synthesise B12
- Inject B12 directly
- Dose with CoSO4 bullets to allow release straight
into rumen so bugs can synthesise B12
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