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When shipping stress gets your calves’
appetites in a bind, use Diamond V Yeast Culture to help them unwind.
Diamond V Yeast Culture improves ration palatability which promotes the
intake needed to get calves on feed.
As a rich nutrient source for digestive bacteria in the calf’s rumen,
Diamond V Yeast Culture helps make more nutrients available to the calf.
Break the stress bind
for a healthy start.
When a shipment of new
calves arrives, you begin a race with the clock. On top of all your
other pressures, stress has their appetites in knots. With as few as 21
days to prepare calves for the pasture or feedlot, you’ve got to treat
them for illness and disease, complete various processing procedures and
overcome the stresses of shipping and handling and get them on feed and
gaining as quickly as possible. Given all of the challenges you must
overcome in such a short time, anything you can do to get calves off to
a healthy start faster can make a big difference in their performance
and on your bottom line.
Reduce stress, restore
fermentation
If you’re always looking for new ways
to improve production efficiency, you’ll want to make sure Diamond V
Yeast Culture is in your starting ration. By improving the palatability
and digestibility of the starting ration, Diamond V Yeast Culture breaks
the stress knot, helping to restore rumen function and appetite. As an
experienced beef producer, you know the one key to success is an
effective starting program — one that combines your knowledge,
efficient processing, sound advice, proper nutrition, and proven
techniques like the Receiving Cattle Management Tips contained in this
brochure. We’d also like to show you how Diamond V Yeast Culture can
enhance your total program.
Does your starting
ration contain everything your calves need?
When it comes to livestock nutrition,
there are many excellent starting rations available which contain most
of the critical ingredients your calves need. But what if there was an
additional ingredient that could give you an edge in promoting even
faster starts? Many producers have found that ingredient is Diamond V
Yeast Culture. Can it really make a difference? Look at the evidence
then judge for yourself.
One of the greatest
challenges for incoming calves.
There’s one thing you can count on when
a shipment of calves arrives, you know they’ll be stressed. And due to
the stresses of shipping, handling, and lack of feed during transport,
the calves frequently go off feed. Under these conditions, at least four
negative effects occur:
- Fermentation activity decreases to 10
to 15% of normal.
- Rumen protozoa dramatically decrease,
often essentially to zero.
- Rumen bacteria numbers decrease to 10
to 25% of normal.
- Balance between rumen bacterial
species is disrupted.
Since most incoming calves typically
suffer from these effects, one of the greatest challenges in your
program is to enhance rumen fermentation as a means of restoring intake
and nutrition. |
