Feed Supplements and Other Products

Can the cost of additional feed supplements be justified?

As yields rise specialist feed supplements come into their own. There are many products on the market designed to fine tune the diet. Feed supplements should be used as an integral part of the diet designed to improve levels of performance, feed efficiency and herd health. Rather than being seen as an additional cost many supplements actually reduce the cost of production whilst increasing output.

THE RIGHT PRODUCTS USED CORRECTLY CAN YIELD ENORMOUS BENEFITS

Our Range of Supplements includes:

• Omega Pro F - a unique product containing fish oils, protected proteins and sugars which has tremendous impact on cow fertility and disease resistance
• Salmon oil, Fish Oils (High Omega 3) - an alternative source of Omega 3 oils on a dry carrier in 25kg bags or in liquid form. Omega 3's are essential in the diet and have been demonstrated to improve cow fertility, bulling, conception rates, immune response and rumen efficiency. Most commercial dairy diets are deficient in Omega 3 oils
• Protected Proteins – Sopralin, Soypass , Prairie Meal - Bi-pass protein or Digestible Undegradable Protein (DUP) is particularly important in very high yielding cows
• Protected Amino Acids - Protected Methionine, Metasmart, BioSmart, Smartamine, Lactamine Methionine is generally the first limiting amino acid in dairy cow diets. Response are seen in milk constituent quality, both milk protein percentage and butter fat percentage as well as in milk yield and rumen efficiency. Of particular interest as with omega 3 fish oils is the role of protected methionine in preventing fatty livers and high NEFA's in transition cows, resulting in improved liver efficiency and fewer metabolic problems during early lactation
• Amino Pro-Tec improves utilization of degradable protein in the rumen, resulting in reduced blood urea's and increased milk yields
• Glucolac Plus, Liquid Propylene Glycol - Glucose pre-cursor for use with transition and very high yielding cows
• Rumen Buffers - Ostrea, Maxcare Rumen Buffer, Alkakarb, Sodium Bicarbonate, Acid Buf Acidosis is common place in most dairy herds whether fed traditional cake and silage diets, full TMR complete diets or in cows grazing at grass. Usually it goes unrecognized. For example we have become accustomed to cows scouring on spring grass. We now routinely recommend inclusion of Ostrea in dairy diets throughout the year, as a matter of course. The results speak for themselves, improved yields, far fewer foot problems and reduced lameness, better feed efficiency and healthier cows. All for a few pence per cow / day.
• Salt - Ground and Lump Rock Salt, PDV Salt, Iodised Salt. Where sodium levels are questionable, offer on a free access basis
• Straight Minerals - Calcined Magnesite (Cal Mag), Limestone Flour, Dical Phosphate
• Magnesium Chloride Flakes - Dissolved in water troughs at grass or used to adjust magnesium and DCAD levels in close-up dry cows where it is extremely effective in the control of milk fever
• Micro Prilled Urea (Feed Grade) - Useful as a source of non-protein nitrogen where ERDP is in short supply in TMR's
• Caustic Soda - For use in producing SodaGrain. An effective alternative to mechanical processing of grain. Cheaper than drying wet grain.
• Mycotoxin Binders  and Mycotoxin Deactivators - Mycocell, Mycocell Combi, Mycosorb and Microsafe Max. Mycotoxins are widely recognized as a major cost to the industry resulting in lost output, reduced immune response, infertility and a wide range of animal health problems. We offer a number of solutions designed to either effectively bind or deactivate a wide range of mycotoxins in feed. We also offer a testing service to check feeds for a variety of mycotoxins prior to recommending a solution.  
• Cubicle Bedding Powders - Cubi-Powder, Vulkamin, Prosanex, Dri Li-Plus - effective cubicle powder, bedding materials for improving hygiene in cubicle buildings, dry cow yards, calving boxes and calf pens
• Footbath and Lameness Treatments  - TendaHoof Solution, Copper Sulphate, Zinc Sulphate. Used as part of routine foot bathing or hoof spraying programmes have proven to be a very effective prevention for lameness in dairy cows.
• PIP Products - Probiotics in Progress - new to the UK from the Netherlands. The PIP system  is designed to inhibit the growth of the pathogenic bacteria which cause digital dermatitis, mastitis and many other diseases associated with intensively housed dairy cows, calves and other livestock. PIP establishes a healthy microbial environment in livestock housing, on beds and on the skin surfaces of cattle. By preventing the build up of pathogenic bacteria in and around buildings PIP reduces the risk of infection from a wide range of diseases which occur commonly in livestock the result is healthier animal which perform better and are more profitable.

Making best use of the wide range of products available is an area where our nutritional expertise is of particular benefit to our customers

Full nutritional support package to customers Free of Charge, along with the most extensive range of high quality feed inputs available

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