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A spring-calving milk producer says bolusing his herd with Animax’s Tracesure Cu/I bolus gives him peace of mind that all the stock get their necessary levels of trace elements.
“We were looking for a product that would give us peace of mind that would protect against difficulties at calving.’ ’Mr Millington says it is those difficulties affect fertility.
John Millington, who runs a herd of 420 cows at Sandon, Staffordshire, started bolusing his cows two years ago when he began out-wintering on green crops.
“Milk fever has always been a major issue and we have seen a lot less cases in the two seasons we have been using the bolus,’’ says Mr Millington.
His conception rates have steadily improved and his empty rate is now down to less than 10%.
“We wanted to be sure that we were getting minerals into all the cows all of the time rather than giving them a bag of minerals that some may take and others may not,’’ he says.
He says the biggest single benefit he has noticed since using Tracesure Cu/I is less retained cleansings. “Cows have been more eager to calve as a result of their better trace element status and there have been less difficult calvings due to cows being lazy.’’
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