Purina Animal Nutrition introduces new research data on Rally® Dairy Feed that shows milk production benefits during heat stress.
As a nutritional heat stress abatement measure, patented Rally® feed technology allows the delivery of more glucose and energy to cows than a typical diet when intakes are challenged and she needs it the most. Research highlights that Rally® Dairy Feed, a cost-effective feed technology, provides benefits for transition and lactating cows during times of heat stress to:
· Address energy needs
· Maintain feed intake
· Deliver more milk during times of heat stress
Research results, including two field demonstrations, shows that incorporating Rally® Dairy Feed into transition and lactating cow rations has benefits that may protect profitability potential, feed intake and milk production.
In field Demonstration A, cows fed Rally® Dairy Feed during heat stress showed:
· 3.5 pound increase in dry matter intake
· 7 percent improvement in feed efficiency
In field Demonstration B, Rally® Dairy Feed delivered a milk production benefit of 8 pounds per day during the first 15 weeks of lactation during heat stress conditions.
Transition cow studies conducted at the Purina Animal Nutrition Center have also shown that when this group was fed Rally®, it delivered[3]:
· Higher peaks in milk production
· Higher total milk yield over lactation
· Reduced non-esterified fatty acids (NEFA) levels by 15 percent
· 27.6 percent reduction in beta-hydroxybutyrate (BHBA)
At the farm level, heat stress and an associated 10 percent to 35 percent milk production loss[4] may cost $1.60 to $5.60 per cow per day[5]. But the overview of all research conducted by Purina Animal Nutrition shows that feeding Rally® Dairy Feed before and during warm weather can lessen the impact of heat stress on productivity and herd performance.
Source: Purina Animal
Because of factors outside of Purina Animal Nutrition LLC’s control, individual results to be obtained, including but not limited to: financial performance, animal condition, health or performance cannot be predicted or guaranteed by Purina Animal Nutrition LLC.