From top-dress supplements to low moisture blocks and complete receiving feeds, KENT offers solutions for every operation. Learn more about how targeted nutrition can help calves get off to a strong start this fall.
Stressful events such as weaning, transportation, and receiving can negatively impact feed intake, health, and performance. Strategic nutrition can help minimize these challenges and keep calves on track for success.
Feed intake decreases during stressful periods, which has major impacts on the health and performance of calves. Yeast products, such as KENT Natural Yeast and MicroGold™, can help support feed intake and ruminal fermentation. NutriVantage® for beef is another feed additive that helps to maintain feed intake and improve feed efficiency. Keeping calves on feed during stressful events helps ensure calves have all the “groceries” they need to continue growing.
In addition to managing intake, supporting immune function is important during stressful transitions. Yeast cell wall components in BetaMOS® help support the immune system. Mannan oligosaccharides in BetaMOS can bind to pathogenic bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract, blocking their ability to bind to intestinal cells and cause disease. While beta glucans also provide support to the immune system.
Stress can increase nutrient demands while reducing feed intake, making vitamin and trace mineral nutrition especially important. Fortified concentrations of vitamin E and more bioavailable sources of trace minerals help support immune function, antioxidant activity and growth performance when stress places additional demands on the calf.
These technologies combined with targeted nutrition are featured in KENT Performance Primer, EnergiLass® Rumen Booster Plus and the Feedlot ArrivalMax family of feeds. Whether producers need a top-dress supplement, low-moisture block, or complete receiving feed, KENT Nutrition offers nutritional solutions designed to help calves maintain intake, support immune function and get off to a strong start during stressful transitions.
Key Technologies for Stress
- NutriVantage® for beef – Supports feed intake and feed efficiency during stressful periods
- KENT Natural Yeast & MicroGold™ – Help support rumen function and encourage feed intake
- BetaMOS® – Supports immune health and gut integrity
- Organic Trace Minerals – Provide highly available mineral nutrition to support health and performance
- Vitamin E – Supports antioxidant activity and immune function during times of stress