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Vitamins and minerals in dairy cattle nutrition
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Introduction A number of micronutrients have been shown to affect various aspects of immunity in cattle. The interactions between nutritional status, immunology and disease resistance are extremely complex. Insufficient contents of micronutrients in animal diets have been related with low disease resistance and decreased disease resistance. A balanced supply of micronutrients, such as vitamins E, β-...
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To optimize the growth and production of animals, we have long realized good nutrition is key. Trace mineral supplementation has been simplified to strictly meeting the parts-per-million requirements set out in the nutrient requirement tables, with little attention given to the form in which the mineral is provided. Recently, there has been more interest and research on the influence trace minerals have on the immune system, with specific interest given to...
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How Microencapsulation as a delivery system can be used to optimize nutrient absorption in ruminants? In this Maxx Talks, hear what Dr. Wayne Greene has to say about the benefits of Microencapsulation as a technology platform capable of delivering full value of sensitive ingredients up and down the gastrointestinal tract.
Dr. Wayne Greene is a professor and head of the department of animal...
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In 1817, selenium (Se) was isolated for the first time by Berzelius. At that time little was known about its biological function, until its nutritional requirement was revealed about 140 years later by Schwarz and Foltz in 1957...
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Key information Mepron® is a dust free mini pellet (1.8 * 3mm) with a very high degree of durability and low humidity with min. 85 % content of DL-methionine in a rumen protected form. Its specific gravity (1.2 kg/L), bulk density (650 kg/m 3 ) and angle of repose (21°) assure excellent flow and conveying properties. Using conventional mixing techniques, the product can be mixed with many types of feed ingredients quickly (2.5 min)...
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Erin Horst (Iowa State University) discussed leaky gut in lactating Holstein cows and the consequences of feed restriction, as well as the effect of dietary zinc hydroxychloride, during the 8th Symposium on Gut Health in Production of Food Animals in St. Louis, USA....
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Blockbuster: Super METHIOPEDIA (the technical reference book of Methionine) in Chinese is coming!
Sept. 24, 2019, Chengdu, China -- Adisseo METHIOPEDIA conference was successfully held in Sichuan Agricultural University.
In 2013, Adisseo published the first edition of METHIOPEDIA, the technical reference book of...
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Introduction Proper sampling of ration ingredients and submitting those samples for nutrient analysis to a good lab are essential components of diet formulation. The relative importance of sampling, analytical, and real variation on overall variation in nutrient composition data of ingredients has been discussed at previous conferences (Weiss et al., 2012; Weiss et al., 2014). Sampling variation was an equal or greater source of variation than was real month-to-month...
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Introduction There is increasing pressure at federal, state and local levels about nutrient waste and pollution relative to N, P, CH4 and CO2 discharges from the animal industry. Large animal operations have come under more intense scrutiny than small animal operations, with CAFO regulations being put in place. This has put increasing pressure on producers and us as nutritionists to provide some of the...
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Introduction: Dairying has been considered to be one of the livelihood options for rural poor people, especially for landless, marginal, and small farmers in India and world. Generally, the productivity in dairy sector is low and smallholders are constrained by lack of access to quality feed. Although professionals have pointed out the importance of feeding, the ground realities or practices about concentrate feeds is entirely different. Due to shrinkage of grazing land and...
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The mineral complement of the animal and, to a large extent, the human diet is the fraction that historically we have made little attempt to supply in the form in which it occurs in natural mammalian foods. For the most part the strategy of using inorganic minerals, ie. oxides, sulfates and carbonates, has successfully provided the nutrients needed for growth and production of domestic livestock. Limitations in bioavailability or metabolism of inorganic sources due to either chemical or...
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Objective: The objective was to compare Ca serum concentration and frequency of severe [Ca < 2.0 mmol/L] and moderate [Ca < 2.125 mmol/L] subclinical hypocalcemia (SCH) in cows supplemented according to the Dietary Cation Anion Differences (DCAD) principles or with synthetic zeolite. Materials and methods: The trials were performed in two large commercial farms in US and blood samples were taken within the first 24 hours after...
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Introduction Most cows undergo some level of hypocalcemia in the immediate postpartum period, with 40 to 70% of multiparous cows developing subclinical hypocalcemia (SCH; Reinhardt et al., 2011; Caixeta et al., 2015; Neves et al., 2017). Supplementing zeolite A in prepartum rations improves Ca status during the peripartum period (Thilsing et al., 2006; Pallesen et al., 2008). In European studies, feeding zeolite A for the 2 weeks prior to calving resulted in...
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Introduction Most cows undergo some level of hypocalcemia in the immediate postpartum period, with 40 to 70% of multiparous cows developing subclinical hypocalcemia (SCH; Reinhardt et al., 2011; Caixeta et al., 2015; Neves et al., 2017). Feeding prepartum rations low in Ca can improve Ca status postpartum (Kichura et al., 1982) but is difficult to achieve with commonly used feedstuffs in the US (Goff, 2006). In European studies, feeding zeolite A for the 2...
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Stabilises the balance of fluids and electrolytes to support the physiological digestion.
Balance in life is important. This also applies to the balance of calves’ fluids, electrolytes and energy. Dialyt Express is a...
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Vilofoss will be present at ADSA, June 24-27. New scientific results on preventing hypocalcemia in dairy cows using X-Zelit product will be presented at the ADSA next week at Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.
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X-Zelit was tested at the Cornell University. In a ProDairy webinar, Tom Overton is discussing the methods to prevent hypocalcemia and some of the results from the X-Zelit trial is presented. Watch the entire webinar here....
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Dr. Tom Overton from Cornell University will present the webinar “New Dietary Approaches to Manage Hypocalcemia in Transition Cows”, on April 12. This webinar will provide the efficiency of a calcium binder (X-Zelit®) for preventing hypocalcemia, tested by Cornell University in the United States.
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Introduction • Most cows are unable to elude some level of hypocalcemia in the immediate postpartum period, with 40 to 70% of multiparous cows developing subclinical hypocalcemia (SCH; Reinhardt et al., 2011; Caixeta et al., 2015; Neves et al., 2017). • Supplementing anions in prepartum rations is a common strategy to improve blood Ca concentrations however, SCH is often not eliminated (Leno et...
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