This type of rumen bypass fat made especially for high milk-yielding dairy ruminants (animals with 4 stomachs) such as cows, goats and sheep known as calcium soap/salt of long chain fatty acid or CaLCFA. In the need to produce more milk and faster birth recovery that need high of energy and lactation requirement, this feed provides that highly intense energy feed.
Due to high requirement of energy to produce more milk and to recover from birthing (needed to get the animal to lactate). There is a need to provide a diet of highly intense energy feed. As ruminant specific digestive system that would not tolerate the presence of oil (triglycerides + glycerol) in the 1st stomach or rumen. This is supplemental energy feed need to be inert to be digested in the later part of the system.
For such a purpose this product (CAL VET) is especially made. As it names implies as a SOAP but in the technical term this is categorised as a rumen bypass fat.
The CAL VET is one such product made especially for such a purpose. It categorized as a rumen bypass fat even though technically, it is more of soap as its name implies! To convert into energy from fatty acid, the main structure and ingredient that consist of fatty acids this is essentially unattached triglycerides is converted into energy and broken up in the acidic 4th stomach.
These types of long chain fatty acid that are proven similar to the ones found in the cow milk are conducive to the well-being of the lactating animals.
Why Calcium Salt?
Because of high productivity demand increase, feed of more dry matters cannot assuage dairy cow farmer the need of supplement energy source Moreover, contribution from derivatives from oils and fats are the cheapest energy source based one calorimetric in the balance of economics However, by feeding more oils and fats will cause invariable more harm than good because oils & fat break down in the rumen into fatty acids. Microbial activities will be inhibiting when these same fatty acid is subjected to bio-hydrogenation processes in the same rumen
The health of the animal is compromised with the following issues:
- Lack of appetite
- Slower recoveries after calving
- Low milk-yield
- Fertility problems
- Ketosis, Acidosis
To enable crucial process of the rumen activities, modification of the oils & fats is requiring so as to enable energy supplement to be absorbed. The alternative is offered by Calcium Salt.
In the rumen stage, the product’s calcium bonding with fatty acids is prevented from reacting and thereby providing the crucial “inertness”.
A majority of the problems mentioned above is taken away through this simplistic effect and will provide much needed energy for the milk yielding cows to stage a recovery after calving and rumen activities not effected, nutritional absorption of dry matter is also optimized.
In the rumen, the calcium soap will stay inert and then to the abomasum is then passed on where conditions of relative acidity there will break down the calcium bonding and optimal intestinal digestions is achieved.
Benefits of Using CAL VET
- Faster recoveries for the calves.
- Quick return to optimum fertility condition.
- Optimum milk production.
- Increase in milk yield.
- Optimal nutrients absorption for the animals.
