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Calves are born fat-soluble vitamin deficient and depend on colostrum to provide fat-soluble vitamins, as long as the dam has consumed adequate fat-soluble vitamins before calving.  Calves born to cows in early spring are more prone to be deficient due to lack of vitamin intake by gestating cows. Signs of deficiency include weak calves, diarrhea, unable to nurse, and muscle degeneration.

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Depending on source and degree of stress, arrival programs should include injectable vitamins E, A and D, especially vitamin E.

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Dairy beef calves entering the feedlot typically are grossly vitamin E deficient and vitamin A adequate; therefore, those animals do not need additional vitamin A and should be injected with vitamin E only.

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Depending on season of year, cows can benefit from an injection of fat-soluble vitamins prior to calving. This product contains 200,000 I.U. vitamin A per mL as retinyl-palmitate, the biologically storage form of vitamin A.