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During the calf season, caring for newborn calves is of paramount importance. Livestock farmers must ensure that calves receive colostrum, which is rich in essential nutrients and antibodies. This helps strengthen the calf's immune system and lays the foundation for a healthy animal and the resistance it needs to be able to provide. But this sometimes only concerns half the story.
Nutritional requirements
Proper nutrition is essential for the development of young calves. They need a balanced diet that includes milk replacer and starter feeds. Making sure they get the right nutrients at the right time is therefore essential for their growth.
Health monitoring
Regular health checks and monitoring are essential during calving. This helps detect and address any health problems in time, so that calves grow up to be healthy, productive cattle.
Challenges
During this period, one often encounters reduced appetite and feed intake. A problem that is usually due to poor intestinal digestion. A negative intestinal condition leads to condition weakness and lower immunity. Just for this reason, it is extremely important that these symptoms are better prevented than cured. A supplement that addresses this specific problem is therefore appropriate at times.
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In addition, diarrhoea is one of the most common conditions in young animals. Frequently, diarrhoea is caused by a virus, bacteria or parasite, such as E-coli, Rota and Corona virus, cryptosporidia, coccidiosis or Salmonella, for example.
To combat gastrointestinal disorders, the addition of supplements is recommended:
- Nutritional salts:
- These ensure that the young animal does not lose further fluids unnecessarily.
- Glucose:
- Provides a weakened animal with immediate, rapidly absorbable energy.
- Fruit pectins and absorbent dietary fibres
- Protection of the intestinal epithelium and regulation of intestinal flora.
- Bacillus bacteria
- Bacillus bacteria
- Bicarbonate
- Ensures correction of metabolic blood acidification.
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