The need for a healthy start
The transfer of maternally derived antibodies within the first few hours of life is essential to protect neonatal calves against disease. Their reliance on this passively acquired resistance, transferred in their dam's colostrum, underlines the importance of ensuring that not only is a sufficient quantity of colostrum taken but that it is of a high enough quality to provide the protection needed by the calf.

As well as quantity and quality, the importance for early ingestion of the colostrum is also paramount. By this way, the calf takes antibodies directly into the gut, providing essential local protection. Subsequently, with the absorption of the immunoglobulins from the colostrum in the gut, this is not only a local but also a systemic protection which is provided against a wide range of bacteria and viruses. The neonatal calf relies on this simple and natural process for a healthy start to life.

When the nature needs a little help
Certainty of the availability and quality of colostrum cannot be guaranteed.
All too often, the dam may not produce sufficient colostrum and the quality of that colostrum will be dependant on her own, often unknown, immune status. She may calve down with acute mastitis or hypocalcaemia and not be able to provide the calf with enough colostrum. The calf may be weak and not able to suck. Either cow or calf may be injured. Whatever the reason, when something does go wrong, the adequate intake of colostrum can never be guaranteed. It is then that the nature needs a little help.

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