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Every grazier dreads the times when feed
is short. Depending on the soils and pastures on individual properties,
you may have sufficient forage for animals to survive, but they also
need to produce.
Buying in feed and supplements is often necessary, and all too common.
It’s expensive, but it keeps animals alive, and may keep them producing
until times get better.
It’s one thing to feed for survival, but you can’t afford to waste a
season without production as well. In addition, you need good nutrition
simply to maintain reproductive rates for future production. One of the
most important issues in ruminant nutrition is to maintain a balanced
mineral and trace element supply, as these are the compounds that allow
bones to develop, milk to be manufactured, hormones to be produced,
reproductive cycles and fertility to be maintained, wool and fibre to be
produced, and muscle tissue to be developed. After supplying energy and
protein, minerals and trace elements are vital, even to allow the energy
and protein to be utilised. If any mineral or trace element is deficient
then the many chemical processes that depend on that compound to
continue will simply stop. Then production stops. Think about the
problems that causes in animals under the additional stress of
pregnancy, lactation, growth and drought.
Almost all farmers can identify soil and pasture deficiencies that can,
and often do, limit production in grazing animals. The hard decision is
how to rectify production limiting deficiencies or nutrient excesses. Do
you supplement the animals, or do you try to improve soils and pastures?
If you take the second option, you face a long road until soils provide
sufficient essential nutrients to allow your stock to reproduce, grow,
survive and produce. Sadly, many soils are now deficient in a range of
macro minerals such as calcium or magnesium, and can be seriously
deficient in many trace elements such as copper, zinc, selenium, etc.
Other soils can have significant mineral excesses, which reduce
availability of other essential minerals. Either way, production
suffers.
The pastures grown on your soil are only as good as the available
nutrients in that soil. If the nutrients are not in the soil, the only
option is to supplement them in feed or water. By providing small
amounts of all essential minerals and trace elements regularly, all
animals receive enough for all of the thousands of chemical processes in
the body to continue on a daily basis.
Wouldn’t it be an advantageous to have an oral liquid mineral and trace
element supplement which could be used either by adding it to drinking
water supplies, to feed, such as grain or hay, or even to milk in young
calves, kids or lambs under stress. You could even add it to a molasses
/ urea mix when you were drought feeding for survival.
Wouldn’t it be even more advantageous if that oral liquid supplement provided
over 60 minerals and trace elements, vitamins A, D and E, and a host of
other plant complexes which helped the daily diet to balance any soil or
pasture deficiencies.
Wouldn’t it be even better if that product contained no manufactured
pharmaceuticals, drugs, or chemicals that tainted meat or milk, and was
100% natural, 100% organic, and totally manufactured from plant products
that were grown in optimum conditions to provide a full spectrum of
essential minerals, trace elements and vitamins.
Where licks and powdered supplements are often not eaten by some
animals, and over-consumed by others, water medication, or application
of a liquid supplement to any feed ensures that all animals get what
they need.
That supplement is now available. It’s called
Phytomins, and is
manufactured by Ranvet Pty Ltd, to GMP standards in it’s Sydney
manufacturing facility. Phytomins provides boosted essential mineral and
trace element levels in this oral liquid supplement, specifically to
cater for the nutritional needs of grazing ruminants. Ranvet has over 45
years experience in nutrition of horses, and now turns its attention to
providing that nutritional experience to assisting grazing ruminant
production. If you ensure that your animals have all of the essential
nutrients, the animal's health and production takes care of itself.
In any situation requiring nutrient supplementation to stressed animals,
consider supplementing Phytomins to feed or water. Phytomins is not an
energy or protein supplement, but may be safely added to drought feeding
supplements such as molasses, grain or urea licks.
Make the difference
by providing a cost effective, easily administered natural nutritional
supplement for optimum growth, reproduction and production.
For further information and availability click here
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