Cattle Health Problems & Culbac® Animal Solutions

Cow/calf operations focus on gestation, calving, and weaning of calves. Fertility is the first challenge in a beef cattle operation, whether cow-calf focused, or full lifecycle.

Optimal fertility depends on the right diet and efficient nutrient uptake in the animal to ensure proper hormone levels are achieved and to prepare the uterus for implantation. If a cow is unable to access or use nutrients appropriately because her rumen is out of balance or not optimized, even the best ration will not support the achievement of reproductive goals.

Balanced cycling, effective implantation, and making it through the first 20 days without embryo loss all depend on nutrient uptake. Culbac animal products help during this key time by supporting rumen function and optimizing the bacteria in the ruminal compartments to ensure nutrient uptake and efficient breeding.

Products: Culbac Dry and Rumen-Bac

At calving, delivery of colostrum and passive immunity within hours is critical to support digestion and immune development in the calf. Ensuring that each calf gets a healthy start can make a real difference on return on investment when a calf goes to market.

Starting on day one, Culbac’s Healthy Start® product ensures the development of healthy rumen function in your calves. When calves are born, their digestive function resembles that of a monogastric animal. The swings in pH that are associated with every feeding take extra energy from the calf, and the rumen that starts building in the young calf is affected by how well the calf is able to utilize the nutrients coming from the cow’s udder. Additionally, this is the time when passive immunity is shared between the cow and her offspring. Optimizing that protective infusion from the cow and improving immune function in the young calf will serve that animal throughout its entire lifespan.

Products: Culbac Dry, Healthy Start, and Rumen-Bac

Weaning is a stressful time for calves. When animals are stressed, their immune systems are not working at optimal strength. Scours and pathogenic exposure can challenge your young calves.

Whether you are backgrounding or preconditioning calves for the sale barn, making sure you minimize stress in your animal is the best way to ensure healthy calves for the future of your farm or healthy calves to the sale barn, and efficient response to vaccination.

Healthier calves mean greater feedlot performance, higher quality grades and more market premiums. Boosting the immune system and minimizing stress at the same time is a great added benefit to support the health of your calves and optimize immunization responses to give your calves the best protection.

Products: Culbac Dry, Healthy Start, and Rumen-Bac

When calves are taken to auction, they are exposed to numerous stressors and potentially exposed to numerous pathogens being brought in by other animals. Even the best vaccinated and preconditioned animals have lowered immune responses during this stressful time.

Making sure that your animals are able to handle the stress and have an optimized immune system to resist the pathogens will give them a great start.

Culbac Healthy Start helps optimize the microbial balance in the ruminant animal throughout the entire digestive system. Having optimized rumen function has been shown to minimize stress and optimize immune responses to protect calves.

Products: Culbac Dry, Healthy Start, and Rumen-Bac

The move to stockyards or pastures can be the most challenging time for most calves. A calf’s immune system is challenged from the stress of the sale barn, comingling with other animals, exposure to new pathogenic challenges, and often a move to a new facility.

These stresses can weaken the immune system and make calves susceptible to a variety of problems. Vaccinations require a healthy immune system to be effective – supporting the immune strength of the animal is key. Additionally, stress or illness can make a calf go off feed, further compromising the investment and often requiring additional inputs or medications to return the calf to health and productivity. Culbac animal feed additives support digestive function and can be delivered with other inputs or medications. Daily inclusion of Culbac feed additives has been shown to keep animals on feed and ensure nutrient uptake to maintain health and productivity.

Products: Healthy Start, Culbac Dry and Rumen-Bac

In finishing cattle, feed-to-gain ratios balanced with optimal meat quality, marbling, and volume are the key to return on investment. Keeping animals on feed, maintaining health, and ensuring optimized nutrient uptake within the ruminal compartment are goals of any finishing operation. The investment in a feed additive that supports these goals, like Culbac Animal products will maximize your return on investment. Culbac Animal products have been shown to optimize microbial balance throughout the digestive tract which has been scientifically proven to support immune function, optimize health, and provide optimal gain, increasing ROI.

Products: Healthy Start, Culbac Dry and Rumen-Bac

Reduced pathogen load upon arrival at the packing facility provides positive value. Culbac animal products, when fed for weeks prior, help ensure demonstrably fewer pathogens (like E. coli) as the animal is processed. This can provide benefits at the packing plant and protect meat quality.

Products: Healthy Start, Culbac Dry and Rumen-Bac