UNDER 22 – SOLUTIONS’ LINE TO IMPROVE YOUNG ANIMALS’ HEALTH AND PERFORMANCE AND REDUCE REPLACEMENT COST

One of the most important farming’s parts is the replacement. Replacement farming can be greatly improved by increased livestock efficiency.

The indicator that measures the replacement’s economic impact on the farm’s profitability is the replacement cost, which is the economic cost that the farm must bear to keep its dimensions unchanged.

The replacement cost is the second cost that a dairy farm has to bear after food costs.

The replacement cost is calculated by subtracting from the farming heifer’s cost (feeding cost + animal management cost + health costs + costs relating to the structures and means used and mortality rate) the outputs’ value from the reform (animals’ value leaving the farm for the end of their career, plus animals’ value that left the farm early due to health problems, minus animals’ value that died in the farm and which therefore represent not a revenue but a cost for their disposal), relating everything to sold milk’s quantity, to find out the economic impact that the substitution process generates on 100 kg of milk sold.

Therefore, it is necessary to improve some young animals technical farming’s parameters both in helath and performnce terms (e.g. greater health and lower mortality in calves, earlier age of heifers’ first calving, etc. .) to lower the replacement cost.

GRANDA TEAM’s UNDER 22 LINE PROPOSES A SOLUTIONS’ SERIES THAT CONCERN GREATER HEALTH AND LESS MORTALITY IN CALVES.

In particular:

GREAT TEAM’s SOLUTIONS TO OBTAIN QUALITY COLOSTRUM (WITH HIGH IMMUNIZING POWER)

The term “colostrum” means the mammary gland’s first product after calving, which varies both in protein content and in antibody concentration. Knowing the colostrum’s “immunizing power” that will be used is necessary to calibrate the quantity to be administered and possibly the integration to be made. The decolostration phase is often an “obvious” and uncontrolled practice, even if everyone considers it essential for the first weeks of a calf’s life.
Knowing the antibodies administered’s extent, but above all absorbed, plays a key role in the fight against neonatal diarrhea.

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.

GRANDE TEAM’s SOLUTIONS TO REDUCE HYPOVITAL CALVES NUMBER

The calves’ birth with low vitality or with infections already in progress (reddened gum rings) is a problem that is still unexplained and not precisely diagnosed today. It is possible that there is vertical phatogens transmission (uterine contamination) or horizontal contamination due to the pathogens’ precence in the vaginal canal.

The various calf’s diarrhea clinical forms have been known for some time, despite this it is useful to remember the temporal sequence (bacteria, viruses from the 5th day, cryptosporidia from the 8th day) and the need to administer a broad spectrum therapeutic product (there is never a single pathogen present!!)

DIAGNOSTIC SOLUTION:

Do vaginal swabs and figure out exactly which viruses are causing the problem

Use kits for the rapid involved pathogens’ determination

NB: the presence of even a single clinically infected calf requires total environment and equipment sterilization

IMMUNO JET SOLUTION:

It’s pasta for calves, with natural egg’s immunoglobins, which has the function of stabilizing physiological digestion and helping the immune system. Stabilizes the intestinal flora through probiotics and provides vitamins and energy.

Natural immunoglobin (IgY) from eggs can be a powerful feed supplement to support the immature young animals’ immune system. IgY plays a key role in bridging the ‘immune gap’, as it binds to the pathogens in the gut that cause diarrhoea.

GRANDA TEAM’s SOLUTIONS TO REDUCE NEONATAL DIARRHEA

The fluids, electrolytes and bicarbonates’s loss induces a condition described as “metabolic acidosis” in the calf, i.e. a reduction in blood pH, often incompatible with the  vital functions continuation.
Lactate accumulation and dehydration result in hypovolemic shock (cold ears, low body temperature) which precedes calf death.
Sometimes, intravenous rehydration is necessary, but prompt intervention with an appropriate rehydration agent can be curative.

FLORA-UP SOLUTION

It’s a dietary supplement for calves, with natural egg immunoglobins and yeast cell walls to support intestinal health which stabilizes electrolyte balance, it helps the calf in diarrhea case and improves its weight gain. It works well for the gastrointestinal disorders’s (diarrhea) prevention, cure and after-treatment.

FORZALAT SOLUTION

Mother’s milk substitute to increase the milk’s digestibility and integrate the mineral and vitamin quotas in diarrhoeic calves.

GRANDA TEAM’s SOLUTIONS FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AND FARMING STRUCTURES STERILIZATION

The fight against neonatal diarrhea certainly begins with the cages and boxes’ hygiene and disinfection in which calves are housed after colostrum action, as contamination and contact with the pathogen are almost exclusively environmental.
All the pathogens involved (viruses, bacteria, protozoa) have considerable resistance in the environment (especially Rotaviruses) and require particular attention in the environmental disinfectant use.

HYGIENE & HEALTH LINE SOLUTIONS: