Minerals for Cows Everywhere you turn, input costs keep creeping up, slowly and steadily. Feed, medicine costs, fencing, and basic supplies for cattle producers are increasing. Often times the first sacrifices that producers make are vitamins and minerals for cows. Cows require vitamins and minerals for various essential physiological functions to support overall health, growth, […]
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How Soon Will a Cow Breed Back After Calving
We expect a lot from a cow. She spends roughly 283 days in gestation, delivers a calf, and then we prepare her for breed back and expect her to conceive problem-free during her first heat. That is a lot for the body to handle, and the cow does it, hopefully, year after year after year. […]
Tips for Preparing Cows for Breed Back
Breed Back Spring is in the air, and there is no better sight than baby calves running across the hillside with their shiny coats. What we don’t see is what is happening inside that mother cow, a magnificent reproductive machine. She’s doing her best to raise a growthy, vigorous calf. All while preparing her body […]
How to Treat Heat Stress in Cattle
Nobody likes to feel stressed, cattle included. And those cattle definitely don’t want to experience heat stress. But with the summer quickly approaching, it’s inevitable that heat stress is going to strike, ready or not. Preventing heat stress is actually preferred over treatment. But there is always going to be some need to treat heat […]
Battling Heat Stress: Cattle Symptoms, Condition Causes and Prevention Strategies
Heat Stress Cattle Raise your hand if you enjoy heat and humidity. If you are in production agriculture, specifically in the livestock business, chances are those hands will remain at your side or maybe tucked deep inside your pockets. Summer’s high heat and humidity bring extra challenges to livestock producers when it comes to overall health and […]
The Importance of Using Fly Control Mineral for Cattle
Fly Control Mineral for Cattle Good things don’t always come in small packages. Take the fly for instance. Tiny little flies cost the beef industry more than a billion dollars each year. If you break that down, flies can cost you, the producer, $30-$50 per pair if you are not engaging in effective fly control […]
How Vita Charge® Stress Tubs Were Improved
How do you make a great product better? Add one ingredient that is research-proven to work synergistically with other key ingredients to maximize the overall benefits of the product. That’s what the research and production teams at BioZyme® Inc. did with the Vita Charge® Stress Tubs by including a probiotic to the new and improved formula, that launched in October. Vita Charge Stress Tubs provide an extremely […]
VitaFerm Conserve® Adds Product to Diverse Line
Your cattle’s health and performance should be your number one management priority. Keeping Amaferm® in their diets 365-days each year is a way to help you ensure that those cattle stay healthy while getting the most nutritional value from their feedstuff. In an effort to make sure every producer can get that Amaferm advantage into their herds’ diets BioZyme® Inc., […]
Minimal Investment Keeps Cattle Performing Year-Round
Environmental factors, input costs and other outside factors wreak havoc on production costs while market volatility remains unpredictable. Yet, for less than a nickel per cow, per day, you can make the investment to keep your cattle healthy and performing. Amaferm®️ is a prebiotic designed to enhance digestibility by amplifying the nutrient supply for maximum […]
Conserve Costs without Sacrificing Performance
Cattle producers are always looking for ways to reduce their input costs without surrendering their herds’ performance. Now, they can do both successfully. BioZyme® Inc., makers of the VitaFerm® line of supplements is launching VitaFerm Conserve® to its product family. “VitaFerm Conserve was purposefully crafted with the producer in mind as an economical line of vitamin and mineral […]
