Calcimate® for Beef Cattle
Calcimate® is a high calcium animal supplement made from clean limestone (>95% CaCO3). Calcimate® can be fed to boost calcium levels to help maintain animal health. Calcium is essential for the formation and maintenance of bones and teeth, nerve impulse transmission and muscle contraction in beef cattle. A dynamic system involving calcium, phosphorus, and vitamin D helps maintain stable calcium levels in the blood. Calcium deficiency in young animals can lead to skeletal deformities, while in older animals, it can cause fragile bones.
Ensuring adequate calcium intake is particularly important during pregnancy, for the proper development of the foetus, and during lactation, to prevent excessive calcium mobilisation from the bones, which can lead to milk fever.
Manage the effects of low calcium feed and high-oxalate pastures
Balance the calcium to phosphorus ratio
Help maintain commercial herd productivity
Feed Calcimate® Fine Limestone when cattle are consuming a low calcium diet. For Australian beef cattle, calcium supplementation is necessary when they are fed high-grain diets or grazing oxalate-rich pastures, such as buffel grass which make calcium less available.
WARNING: DO NOT FEED CALCIMATE® WHEN SUFFICIENT CALCIUM IS PROVIDED IN FEED OR PASTURE, AS EXCESSIVE CALCIUM CAN AFFECT THE AVAILABILITY OF PHOSPHORUS. ENSURE PHOSPHORUS IS PROVIDED AT THE CORRECT RATIO TO CALCIUM BETWEEN 2:1 TO 1.5:1.
DO NOT FEED CALCIMATE® IN THE 4-WEEKS BEFORE CALVING WITHOUT VETINARY OR NUTRITIONIST ADVICE. FOR SPECIFIC ADVICE ON NUTRITION AND FEED RATIOS CONSULT YOUR ANIMAL NUTRITIONIST OR FOOD EXPERT.
Calcimate® can be dusted onto pasture, or forage laid out, added to the mixer wagon or to feedlot grains. Calcimate® can also be made available on its own for cattle to consume voluntarily.
Disclaimer: All recommendations are general. For specific advice on nutrition and feed ratios consult your animal nutritionist or feed expert.