Meeting the challenge of calf start-up with Delta®Soluvox [Breeder testimony]
Goal: avoid bad digestive starts
At Les Saveurs farm, the dairy heifers are bred for the renewal of the herd and for sale. Robert, who looks after the calves, feeds them Delta® Soluvox dietary feed from birth. He explains the reasons for this choice:
“We always had a small problem with diarrhoea in the calves during the first 10-12 days, despite the introduction of several programmes”.
His feed technician recommended using Delta® Soluvox from birth and during the 15 days when the calves were housed in individual pens, as well as adding the Axion® programme to the dry cow feed.
With Delta® Soluvox: “Calves start up better!
“We have seen a clear improvement, with better calving and healthier calves”,
says the breeder. Since starting to use Delta® Soluvox in August 2016, the breeder has lost 3 calves out of around 100 calvings, including accidents. “We can say that the calves start up better”, he says.
Delta® Soluvox is distributed from day 1, with the colostrum (not necessarily with the first meal, but at least within the first 12 to 24 hours). A dose of 25g is given morning and evening, in the milk, and this dose is maintained for 15 days.
The Les saveurs farm:
- 4 partners
- 100 Montbéliarde dariry cows
- 800,000 litres of milk production