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How to ensure your springers get the right mineral supplementation
Supplementation of the springer cow is critical to minimising metabolic diseases. We recommend the following steps to ensure your springers receive the correct levels of minerals.
Step 1: Decide what you’re going to feed your springers and how much.
Step 2: Complete a herbage analysis on the pasture, silages, and other components of the diet.
Step 3: Calculate the DCAD, which gives you an idea of how risky that feed or diet is to causing metabolic disease.
Step 4: Ascertain the magnesium, phosphorus, calcium, and mineral proportions of the feed.
Step 5: With the herbage analysis complete, look at the calcium, magnesium, and phosphorus components of the diet. Levels within the total diet should sit at:
These studies test negative DCAD transition strategies and anionic supplement approaches, not this specific Agvance product. They also do not directly test the exact formulation of Premium Transition Premix North Island under typical North Island pasture-based dairy conditions.
Research on negative DCAD transition feeding in dairy cows, including meta-analysis data on milk fever risk, controlled prepartum feeding studies measuring calcium dynamics around calving, and comparisons of anionic supplement sources used in negative DCAD diets.
Milk fever risk, blood ionised calcium, calcium infusion requirements after calving, urine pH, degree of metabolic acidosis, dry matter intake, and postpartum performance.
