Two thousand years ago Hippocrates stated that “All disease begins in the gut”. Science research has now recognized that gut health is paramount to calf health.
Calf diarrhoea is still a big challenge on so many UK dairy farms; unfortunately, it is often also a gateway disease to other issues, increasing the risk of pneumonia by eight times. Precision Microbes believes “all health begins in the gut” so, we are revolutionizing the gut health market with a unique probiotic and postbiotic liquid.
The Gut Microbiome
The importance of gut health and the role of these beneficial microbes (good bacteria) in digestive health, immunity, and protecting young calves against pathogens is widely accepted. A healthy calf is the lifeblood of future farm performance. Likewise, a healthy digestive system becomes the foundation of future farm performance from beginning to early life. Understanding this, Precision Microbes has developed game-changing science around the supplementation and support of better gut health.
Gut Health
To improve gut health, we need to look at getting the right microbes in the correct numbers to where they need to be. We must understand that these beneficial bacteria (probiotics) are like factories and it is the metabolites they produce that are important. These metabolites are postbiotics, ‘where the rubber meets the road’ in good gut health. Postbiotics are the key metabolites that regulate digestion, immunity and protect against pathogens.
What Have We Done Differently?
We have a liquid containing good bacteria/probiotics and all their metabolites postbiotics in the one liquid; live bacteria is present in a dormant state, with all their metabolites (postbiotics). The metabolites being produced in the liquid mean speed of action, and this is something we know from trials conducted that farmers can see in their calves themselves.
Unique culturing techniques are also used; having acid-adapted bacteria also means the microbes and their metabolites get to where they need to be.
During the trials carried out, we consistently saw better digestive health and improved FCE where our products are used from birth to weaning.
With seventy per cent of a calf’s immune system in its digestive tract, we are also notably supporting better immune health in young calves.
Our unique liquid combination of probiotics and postbiotic can be given orally or fed in milk daily.
Rapid Stabilization
A bottle on every farm.
Most farmers’ experience with Precision Microbes starts with our 1L bottle when given early to a calf recovering from diarrhoea or not performing.
They see improved appetite, speed of action, gut health recovery, and improved calf health. So they quickly move to the 10L product and start giving it from birth to all calves.
We have been told by many farmers that they wonder how they ever reared calves without Precision Microbes.
The Science of Probiotics and Postbiotics
It is well established that probiotics have a role in improving gut health. How we use them is so important. Precision Microbes are a game-changer in calf health because the liquid contains beneficial bacteria in a live but dormant phase with their postbiotics.
In the most recent trials, the focus has been on how we can improve calf performance. The dairy to beef calves trial were given 30ml daily in milk, from arrival to weaning.
We have seen an ADG difference of 115g/day in the precision-treated calves versus the control group.
“Over a twenty-year veterinary career working and travelling across global agriculture. I haven’t seen anything like the Precision Microbes’ range to be indeed game-changing in their application on the farm. With a fast-acting recovery from diarrhoea and where they are used long-term, seeing the difference in calf health has been extraordinary. These are the most exciting gut health products on the market. My experience with Precision Microbes products is to say with confidence all health does begin in the gut.”
For more information and testimonials on results from on farm success, visit www.precisionmicrobes.com We look forward to working with farms and their calves to transform gut health with our cutting-edge science.
