Probiotics for Ruminants: Supporting Rumen Health, Growth, and Sustainable Productivity
The productivity of cattle depends on a healthy and balanced microbial environment within the rumen. Various factors, including changes in diet, stress, and intensive farming practices, can disrupt this balance, causing reduced feed efficiency, poor nutrient absorption, and metabolic disorders such as acidosis. Probiotics are beneficial micro-organism that regulates the microbial balance in cattle, enhancing […]
How Do Flavors Influence Feed Intake and Productivity in Cattle?
Feed intake is one of the most crucial factors affecting animals’ growth, health, and productivity. The choice of animal feed relies on various factors, including past feeding experiences, sensory characteristics, post-ingestive feedback, and physiological conditions. Ruminants like cattle can detect sweet, sour, salty, and bitter flavors, but their Sensitivity levels differ from those of humans. […]
Cryptosporidiosis: A Hidden Threat to Calves and How to Combat It
Farmers are generally familiar with diarrhea caused by bacteria like E. coli or viruses. In contrast, parasitic illnesses such as Cryptosporidiosis (crypto) are less well-known, even though Cryptosporidium parvum is a common disease in calves. Cryptosporidiosis is likely the most infectious agent causing calf scours on farms due to its incidence, universality, environmental resilience, and low infective […]
Subclinical Mastitis: The Hidden Threat to Dairy Profitability
The increasing demand for milk and milk products has led to an increase in the dairy production industry. The cow’s udder health is important to maintain productivity and profitability. Any factors impacting udder health can affect animal welfare and the safety of the products produced by infected cows eventually leading to economic losses. One of […]
Enhancing Protein and Milk Yield through Amino Acid Optimization
India is the largest producer of milk in the world, contributing 23% of global milk production. In three decades (the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s), the daily milk consumption in the country rose from a low of 107 grams per person in 1970 to 427 grams per person in 2020-21 as against the world average of 322 grams per day during […]
A Natural Revolution – Where Quality Meets Quantity in Milk Production
A Natural Revolution – Where Quality Meets Quantity in Milk Production Production of milk is carried out by about 150 million families worldwide. Smallholders produce most of the milk in developing nations, and Milk Production supports nutrition, food security, and household livelihoods. For cattle to maintain, grow, stay healthy, reproduce, and lactate, protein is an […]
Yeast & Propionibacteria Mix for Cattle Feed | Feeding Probiotics Significantly Improves Milk Yield & Productivity
Conventional feed probiotic – Saccharomyces cerevisiae Animal feed yeast – is used to alter rumen fermentation to improve nutrient digestion, reduce the rumen acidosis risk, and improve animal performance. The use of yeast in animal feed improves the nutritive value of the feed due to its high energy, protein, and amino acid content.Direct-fed microbial used […]
Herbal and Probiotic Supplements for Addressing Mastitis and Improving Udder Health in Dairy
Vitamin D3, Alpha Vitamin for Poultry in its Most Active Formd antibiotics Bovine mastitis is the inflammation of the mammary glands in dairy cows. It usually occurs as an immune response to bacterial invasion of the teat canal by variety of etiological sources present on the farm i.e. pathogenic microorganisms, chemical, mechanical or thermal injuries […]
Advance newborn calves and colostrum management, why is it necessary?
Colostrum management and the composition of fluid fed; the use of various additives such as prebiotics, probiotics, and proteins from hyperimmunized eggs or plasma proteins; and housing can all influence the health of newborn calves. Which are The Common Culprits of Neonatal Calves? It is well documented that dairy calves are extremely susceptible to enteric […]