Representing up to 70% of production costs, ensuring your herd gets the most nutritional value from your feed is essential. Focusing on rumen health and efficiency can maximise the impact of your herds’ diet. 

With the latest research, digestion analysis tools and over 40 years of expertise, Alltech products such as Yea-Sacc® and Optigen® can unlock the nutritional potential of your feed. 

Digestion analysis: The first step in maximising your diet performance

Have you ever considered how well your cattle’s diet is performing? Is it being utilised as efficiently as possible? Feed represents up to 70% of beef and dairy production costs. If feed is not being utilised efficiently by the animal, it can not only be a considerable cost but also lead to less milk produced in dairy cows or reduced weight gain in beef cattle.

Carrying out a simple digestion analysis, also called manure sieving, can provide information on how well the animals’ feed is being utilised while helping to identify the amount of undigested feed passing through the animal. Finding a lot of grains or large fibre particles in the manure can indicate that the feed is not being retained in the rumen for an adequate amount of time or is not fully utilised while there. The result can provide information on rumen health or how well your cattle digest the diet. It can also help diagnose areas for improvement in both ration formulation and herd management.