ECOGUT LINE: CALVES MANAGEMENT WITH PROTOCOLS AND SOLUTIONS TO PREVENT AND TREAT SEPTICEMIA AND NEONATAL ENTERITIS

Calves management is one of the recurring themes that are addressed in farms to improve efficiency and profitability.

Calf house’s management is of crucial importance: the careful and accurate young calves’ management allows greater increases with lower health and drug costs. Nutritional, energy and protein requirements must absolutely be respected, as with adult cows: a healthy and well-nourished calf has the right reserves’ amount which are the basis for the correct animal’s immunity’s development.

One of the most fundamental issues for proper calves’ management is the COLOSTRUM’s management: colostrum is the first milk drawn after calf’s birth; colostrum’s production begins between calving and its importance is not simply attributable to the rich nutritional value, but also to the Immunoglobulins (IgG & IgA) content present which allow the calf to gain an initial immune competence.

Maternal immunity’s transmission must take place in the shortest possible time and in the most effective way: the correct colostrum’s administration and intake for the calf must be at least 5% of its body weight within 6 hours of birth and at least 10% of its body weight in the 12 hours following birth, these assumptions guarantee an effective immunity’s transfer from mother to daughter.

GRANDA TEAM’S SOLUTIONS TO OBTAIN QUALITY COLOSTRUM

COLOSTR-OS SOLUTION:

Colostrum supplement for an additional natural immunoglobulins’ supply in the first life’s days. It helps the young animal’s immune system  and promotes intestinal health. Administration can counteract episodes of diarrhea and improve weight gain.

COLOSTR-OS COMPLETE SOLUTION:

It is a perfect substitute for company colostrum. It is composed exclusively of natural bovine colostrum.
It is characterized by high immunity [>50 g/L IgG (100 g of total IgG)]
Contains a high colostral fat’s percentage for energy.
It is free from pathogenic organisms.
It has been tested for safety and efficacy.

CLINICAL NEONATAL SEPTICEMIA/ENTERITIS EVALUATION

Gastrointestinal diseases are undoubtedly the most frequent problem in calf farming, with variable incidence levels.

Neonatal diarrhea is the main economic losses’cause in cattle farming and due to its diffusion it is the first mortality’s cause in both dairy and beef cattle. In daily practice, buiatricians are faced with neonatal enteritis, often having to manage the problem with little anamnestic information and limited diagnostic tools. The clinical symptoms in the diarrheal calf do not always allow the triggering cause to be identified, both due to the poor symptoms’ differentiation and lesions and because the causative agents are often associated and overlapping.

Neonatal calf’s enteritis is a complex and multifactorial pathology and is often the problematic interaction’s result between the animal body and the environment. Reducing the “enteritis” phenomenon to a single-factor pathological manifestation (viral, bacterial enteritis, etc.) is a short-sighted and risky operation, but often it is necessary to be able to give ourselves a mental order that can guide our decisions. The important thing is to maintain a broad and open vision on this problem’s type, and to have a full and continuous awareness that the problem that confronts us, for the most part, is the result of an entire system that must be analyzed and correct.

GRANDA TEAM’s ANSWER:

NEED BACTERIAL IDENTIFICATION TO ARRIVE AT AN ETIOLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS

Granda Team, through its NUTRIL.HUB (chemical/clinical/nutritional diagnostic tools’ package created to find and analyze technical data and metabolic analyzes in order to fully evaluate pathologies’ incidence and the negative effects induced by them), aims to identify the correct septicemia cause by identifying the bacterium/pathogen that triggers the disease.

The main infectious forms that cause enteric diseases are:

SALMONELLA: 54% – ENTEROBACTERIA (PROTEUS, CITROBACTER, KLEBSIELLA): 78% – ESCH. COLI NO K99: 64% – CHRYPTOSPORIDIA: 8%

DIAGNOSI CLINICA

NEED FOR A DEDICATED PRODUCT

Granda Team’s ECOGUT line offers:

ECOGUT CALF

USE: calf 60 – 150 days old

DOSAGE: 50 g/head/day

VERY EFFECTIVE AGAINST THE COCCIDIA

To prevent neonatal diarrhea that can occur due to bacterial transmission from cow to calf, in addition to the well-known COW VACCINATION IN THE EIGHTH MONTH OF PREGNANCY, Granda team proposes the following:

ENTERO LOCK

ENTERO LOCK

TRANSITION

USE: COW IN STEAMING UP/CLOSE UP PHASE (-20 days before calving)

DOSAGE: 50 g/head/day

BINDER FOR E.COLI

In cattle farming, especially in commercial dairy realities, the calf is born in an environment that is very different from what nature would have reserved for it; as a result, from the very first life’s hours, it interacts with a factors’ series governed by human beings.

The work’s quality and farm’s staff dedication have a major impact on the likelihood that calf will come into contact with various pathogens and on its ability to resist them should contact occur.

To prevent and avoid this incumbency, GRANDA TEAM makes its HYGIENE LINE’s products available to the farmer for the biosafety’s optimization in the most critical points (calving rooms/calves box).

You have immediate results also found against the pathogens that cause gastrointestinal and respiratory problems in calves with GRANDA TEAM HYGIENE & HEALTH line products’ use in the calving room and in the calf house. This allows for a healthier and safer environment and to obtain animals with better performance in the subsequent farming phases.

Once the first life’s days obstacles has been overcome, one must proceed with a balanced diet to obtain the optimal increase (doubling claf weight at weaning). Feeding the calf well in this phase has a double meaning: achieving greater increases in a short time and significantly improving the correct development of immunity.