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Improvement of the growth and performance of Holstein neonatal calves receiving the microbial additive Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2017

B. Saremi  and
A.A. Naserian
B. Saremi*
Affiliation:
Animal Science, Department of Ferdowsi, University of Mashhad, Khorasan, PO Box 91775-1163, Iran
A.A. Naserian
Affiliation:
Animal Science, Department of Ferdowsi, University of Mashhad, Khorasan, PO Box 91775-1163, Iran
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Yeasts such as strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae (SC) are now widely used as additives in ruminant nutrition to improve animal performance, health and utilization of nutritional components of their diet while at the same time avoiding nutritional disorders. Although evidence for a positive effect on animal performance has existed for many years, adoption has been slow. This is probably due to the lack of performance data indicating in which specific production situations the various products are or are not effective. Some studies indicated that the feeding of a yeast strain specifically selected to compliment high grain diets (Yea-Sacc, Alltech, Inc., USA) was effective in improving gain of yearling steers fed a 90% concentrate, 10% roughage diet once daily. So the objective of this study was to determine if this Bakery’s yeast product could positively affect Holstein neonatal calves growth and performance.

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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science , Volume 2003 , 2003 , pp. 100
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Science 2003

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