Cow's Nutrition Quality Critical to Calf's Level of Immunity

At last week's Cattle Industry Convention in Nashville field reporter Matt Rice visited with Alltech representative Brian Lawless who shared the details of a forum on Calf Immunity that happened at the event.

Lawless shared that Alltech's Bio-Mos provides a profitable calf immunity program for beef producers that begins with good nutrition for your cows prior to calving to help create a positive nutritional environment for your calves from the start.

Loss: "Particularly this technology Bio-Mos is our most tested and researched product — Its been tested in over 700 studies in over all species. And really what we've seen is that it supports the transfer of nutrients from the cow to the calf. With that it promotes gut intrigrity and really helps build defenses so that any challenges or any stresses — bad weather or bad silage that comes in and the calf or cow is eating. And even in the feed yard, they then have the immunity set up inside to already to fight those type of stresses. So we know we can put it in the feed. You can trust it and it works. Specifically some of the issues that it really focuses on is colostrum quality — addressing issues potentially as scours. So you as the producer know that you don't have to have the heartache, you don't have the extra doctoring of calves because when you use this — you are using good nutrition from the start."