Looking To Improve Cow and Calf's Baseline Heath

Looking To Improve Cow and Calf's Baseline Heath

This week I have the pleasant duty of being at Alltech’s One Conference in Lexington, KY. Talk about amazing ideas, motivating speakers and phenomenal science as well as technology. Dr. Vaughn Holder Alltech’s Research Project Manager for Beef Nutrition says cow/calf producers need to be sure and have a veterinarian in place as the Veterinarian Feed Directives loom closer.
Holder: “From the cow/calf point of view, one of the biggest problems is the potential loss or the difficulty of obtaining antibiotics to treat particularly scours in young calves. That is going to become a specific problem especially if you don’t have a consulting veterinarian already because you are going to have a veterinarian relationship in place to get these drugs — so that is going to be very important. There are technologies that you can use to improve the baseline health of both the cow and the calf and that will lessen the need for antibiotics at the end of the day.”
Dr. Holder suggests one of Alltech’s products that is derived from a specific yeast strain that feeds the cow’s gastrointestinal tract and thus plays a critical role in animal nutrition and production. He continues.
Holder: “The one I’m thinking about is Bio-Mos and is probably one of our most well known products on the cow calf side. We have many, many years of research on it. What it does is it selectively inhibits pathogens that cause diarrhea and it also increase immune function and increases immune cells in the colostrum of the cow which makings healthy calves.”

 

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