Prevention of acidosis in cows with a probiotic and its effect on dairy productivity
With innovative methods of dairy farming developing, acidosis is most often found by zoo-veterinary specialists in a latent form and occurs, as a rule, in highly productive animals. When the diet is balanced and high-quality feed is used, then any desire associated with an increase in milk productivity will inevitably lead to an increase in the amount of concentrated feed fed to animals. And with an increase in the proportion of concentrates in the diet, we will inevitably meet with the need to control all the functional processes of ruminal digestion. Good productivity is always about balancing and stability. This process dictates the need for constant monitoring of the structure of the diet and its rapid correction, among which, the use of probiotic drugs. Innovative methods of full-fledged animal feeding, based on scientific principles, imply a reasonable consistent compilation of diets, a deeply thought-out calculated and balanced system of their implementation. Feeding cows means, first of all, the nutrition and development of their microflora located in the gastrointestinal tract, which favors their digestive processes when digesting of concentrated and voluminous feeds containing a large amount of protein, starch, cellulose, etc. Currently, innovative highly active biological additives are actively introduced into their feeding to improve the growth, development and preservation of animal health, among which probiotic drugs occupy a strong position. Cows with high productivity need full-fledged feeding, since their metabolism is more intense: in particular, their gas exchange is 1.5-2 times higher compared to animals of average productivity; there is an increase in blood pressure, increased respiratory movements and pulse. This means overwork and degeneration of the internal organs and the entire body as a whole proceeds faster for them. And as a result, due to feeding that is inappropriate in quality and diets that are not balanced in nutrition, macroand microelements, vitamins, this will lead to significant violations of metabolic processes, including a violation of ruminal digestion. This, in turn, will cause the development of metabolic diseases, such as acidosis, alkalosis, ketosis, obesity, cachexia (exhaustion), alimentary infertility and will lead to a reduction in the terms of productive exploitation of animals from one to a maximum of three lactation.