The aim of the course is presenting the probable reasons and occurrence of the metabolic diseases in cattle and poultry with implications on the health, productivity and product quality. The intervention of the climate change driven management factors on the worsening of the problem is also discussed.

These are metabolik disorders of livestock caused by productivity practices when the body reserves on calcium, phosphorus, magnesium or energy cannot meet the metabolic needs or imbalances between several nutrients were also the case. They are very important in places where high producing animals are required, e.g. in diary industry and poultry industry. In cattle, metabolic diseases include ketosis, milk fever, fat cow syndrome, and hypomagnesaemia. All these can produce an acute, temporary, but potentially fatal deficiency. The situation is the case for fatty liver syndrome, skeletal defects and breast muscle myopathies in modern broiler chickens and laying hens.