Quality Liquid Feeds Dairy Heifer Developer 56

Maximize Efficiency:

• Replacement heifers costs* include feed, labor, management, fixed costs, genetics, mortality, and animal health.
• Feed makes up a large percentage of replacement cost, making growth performance, feed quality and feed effi ciency keys to optimizing animal quality, replacement cost and animal performance in the herd.

Reduce Feed Wastage:

• The graph below shows heifers sort against long particles in TMR’s.
• In this study, heifers consumed only 80% of TMR particles greater than 1/2 inch in length.
• The TMR included hay, corn silage, haylage and a dry grain mix.
• Sorting causes feed wastage and inconsistent nutrient and additive intake.
• It is a particular challenge in TMR’s where mineral and vitamin premixes are mixed with relatively high levels of forage.
• Good TMR management is critical to making sure the ration balanced is the ration eaten.
• QLF Farm Demo data shows including a liquid supplement at 2% of as-fed intake in high forage diets reduces sorting and enhances uniform intake of the TMR, including long forage particles.

Enhance Forage Utilization:

• On high-forage heifer diets, rumen-degradable protein and carbohydrate enhance forage utilization and VFA production.
• Sugars and degradable protein provided by QLF heifer supplements feed rumen microbes to enhance VFA production and forage utilization.

Improve Growth Rate By Improving Lonophore Performance:

• Enhanced ruminal fermentation with the addition of soluble sugars and protein provides increased potential for ionophore action.
• Liquid supplements reduce diet sorting and enhance intake consistency, helping ensure desired, uniform intake of ionophores resulting in an increase in ionophore response.

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• Bovatec®
• Rumensin®