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 the profitability of the farmer.
Probiotics for cattle
Probiotics are live microorganisms that, when given in sufficient amounts, provide health benefits to the host. They are non-pathogenic microbes widely used for their health impacts on both dairy and beef cattle at all developmental stages. They are targeted to the rumen, where they enhance fermentation by regulating microbial populations that impact feed digestibility and nutrient absorption. Probiotics positively impact cellulolysis and microbial protein synthesis, stabilizing rumen pH and lactate levels.
How Probiotics Support Ruminant Health Probiotics offer advantages for ruminants by improving gut health, digestion, and productivity while providing environmental sustainability. They help to improve animal performance, immunity, milk quality, and rumen function.
Key benefits of probiotics in ruminants
- Improves gastrointestinal health by regulating gut microbes.
- Improves immunity and help in disease infection.
- Lower methane emissions, reducing environmental impact
- Improves yield, quality, and functional components like protein and fat of the milk
- Improves food conversion ratio by promoting nutrient digestibility
- Supports growth of ruminal cellulolytic bacteria
- Helps to stabilize rumen pH and reduce acidosis
- Reducing ammonia level via decreasing protein degradations
Probiotic Strains Commonly Used in Cattle Feed
- Lactobacillus spp. helps in lactic acid production and the competitive exclusion of pathogens.
- Bifidobacterium spp. supports gut barrier integrity.
- Enterococcus spp. is involved in modulating immune responses.
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae (yeast species) improves fiber digestion and stimulates cellulolytic bacteria.
- Propionibacterium spp. helps in glucose synthesis by producing its precursor in ruminants.
The use of multiple-strain probiotics offers broad protection from infections and improves rumen health due to the complementary action of strains.
VINYEAST–P: A Synergistic Probiotic Solution
VINYEAST–P is a unique combination of Live Yeast Culture (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) and Propioni bacteria (Propionibacterium freudenreichii). It influences ruminal metabolism by manipulating fermentation and ruminal productivity. Live Yeast Culture (LYC) supports fiber digestion, stabilizes fermentation, lowers oxygen and lactate levels, and boosts beneficial microbes.
Propionibacterium helps convert lactic acid into propionic acid, reducing acidosis and stabilizing pH. VINYEAST-P improves nutrient utilization, supports glucose and milk production, and reduces mycotoxin absorption without affecting productivity.
VINYEAST-P – a microbial synergy that drives benefits from digestion to production!