MINEROL Vita-Min-Phosphorous

How Does it Work for your Animals?

• Each active constituent of MINEROL Vita-Min-Phosphorous affects the utilization of low quality- feed and hence maximises the productive performance of the animal.

• Nonprotein Nitrogen, Mineral and vitamin supplementation is of paramount importance to all livestock rations. Imbalances, deficiencies and excesses of minerals pose major problems. While toxicities of vitamins are rare, deficiencies are not and in this era of highly refined scientific feeding, there can be no excuse for these occurrences. MINEROL Vita-Min-Phosphorous will solve all these problems for you.

• The metabolic functions and interrelationships around the minerals are extremely varied and complex. An excessive amount of one mineral can create a deficiency of another. Additionally, several trace minerals have relatively narrow toxicity tolerance. MINEROL Vita-Min-Phosphorous safeguards you from the dangers of toxicity but a the same time will correct any nutrient deficiencies.

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1. Component Nonprotein Nitrogen:

Feedstuff which contains Nitrogen in a form other than proteins or peptides is regarded as nonprotein Nitrogen (NP). Since nonprotein microorganisms in the rumen of ruminant animals degrade dietary protein, it follows that if one feeds carbohydrate and nonprotein Nitrogen sources, both precursors of amino acids and microbial protein are successfully synthesized.

If the animal has access to dried feed, the cellulose in it breaks down into carbohydrates and the ruminant has the ability to utilize rations containing large quantities of nonprotein Nitrogen found in MINEROL Vita-Min-Phosphorous

The lignoureates in MINEROL Vita-Min-Phosphorous convert into microbial proteins. Throughout the digestion microorganisms are passed from the rumen to the more distal organs. In the abomasums and small intestine, these microbes are digested to such a degree that the microbial proteins are broken down to free amino acids which can then be absorbed by the ruminant animal.

2. Component Sulphur:

Most of the Sulphur in the body is present as sulphamino acids of the body proteins. including wool and hair.

If all of the ammo acids are to be produced in the rumen, it is necessary to provide an additional precursor - Sulphur. This is necessary for the synthesis of Sulphur containing ammo acids methionine and cystine. In cattle, the recommended Nitrogen to Sulphur ration varies from 12:1 to 15:1. In sheep the ratio should be 10:1.

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3. Constituent Phosphorous:

Phosphorous is closely associated with calcium in the ruminant body: 80% of the skeleton is composed of calcium phosphate and 80% of the total Phosphorous in the body is found in bone. It is therefore essential for skeletal, and hence whole body growth. Phosphorous deficiency results in weak bones (rickets) and related side effects.

When in gross deficiency a condition known as 'pica' occurs in which cattle have depraved appetites and will consume almost anything, including wood and soil.

The Phosphorous deficiency syndrome is essentially similar whether the deficiency state arises from lack of Phosphorous, lack of calcium or lack of vitamin D.

Some cattle will consume urea containing feed for a few days or weeks, then refuse it. This has occurred in drought areas where farmers have tried to extend their roughage supplies by feeding straw and other minerals which are poor, low quality roughages. Appropriately, increasing Phosphorous and trace minerals with MINEROL Vita-Min-Phosphorous will correct this problem.

4. Constituent Vitamin A:

Vitamin A is one of the few vitamins for which a dietary supply is essential to the well-being of the adult and young ruminant. It is necessary in intensive beef and lamb production and also in dairy cow rations. It is a fat-soluble vitamin formed in livestock from carotene obtained by eating green feed. It is destroyed by oxidation on exposure to air and light, so that hay and silage, which undergo some degree of oxidation during the curing process, supply very little carotene compared to fresh grass.

Because of the loss of potency of this vitamin through oxidation, it is necessary to 'stabilise' the source of vitamin A in animal concentrates by adding an anti-oxidant.

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5. Constituent Vitamin D:

Vitamin D is associated with calcium and Phosphorous metabolism and deficiency of D indirectly gives rise to rickets. This is a disease of young animals which affects the development of the skeleton. Without adequate vitamin D, the deposition of calcium and Phosphorous is disturbed. The bones grow weak and are readily fractured. In voung cattle the hocks may be swollen and the backbone of the animal may be deformed.

6. Constituent Vitamin E:

This vitamin, alpha-tocopherol, used to be known as the anti-sterility vitamin, since a deficiency can give rise to degeneration of the gonads and eventually to sterility. However. its main role seems to be preventing damage to cell membranes. In young ruminants vitamin E deficiency gives rise to the complex condition known as muscular dystrophy or "white muscle disease'.

The trace element Selenium (Se) plays a similar role to that of vitamin E in preventing damage to cell membranes. In some cases, deficiency symptoms can be alleviated by giving either vitamin E or selenium. Vitamin E acts against damage due to oxidation within the cell membranes while selenium forms part of an anti-oxidation enzyme system operating in the cell fluids.

7. Component Cobalt:

Cobalt is a required component of Vitamin B12. Rumen microbes synthesise Vitamin B12 from dietary Cobalt. Clinical deficiency symptoms include: reduced appetite resulting in ketosis and a pre-calving energy deficit, possible metabolic problems such as milk fever, silent heat or non visible oestrus and hairy calves with severely stunted growth rates and ocular discharge (runny eyes).

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8. Component Copper:

Copper is required for body, bone, wool growth, lactation and reproduction. It is also required for pigmentation, mycHnation of nerve fibres and leucocyte functions. Clinical deficiency symptoms include: scouring, stunting and soft bones, poor coat colour and gloss, wool abnormalities, reduced growth rates in young animals, ill-thrift, infertility, swayback, and the potential of lower resistance to parasites.

9. Component Zinc:

Zinc is required for the function of a large number of enzymes, it is essential for reproduction, growth, for normal protein synthesis and metabolism. Clinical deficiency symptoms include: sub normal fertility and growth, skin cracking, hair loss usually on the neck, ears, knee folds, vulva, anus and tail end.

10. Component Manganese:

Manganese is required for reproduction, bone formation, growth and the metabolism of carbohydrates, lipids and amino acids. Clinical deficiency symptoms include: fertility problems due to testicular degeneration and defective ovulation, poor growth, lameness, shortening and bowing of legs, enlarged joints and knuckling over in calves.

11. Component Selenium:

Selenium is required for Vitamin E absorption and retention, to prevent tissue degradation and fibrosis. animal resistance to disease and the toxic affects of certain heavy metals such as cadmium. Clinical deficiency symptoms include: low fertility, slow return to service. greater incidence of uterine infection, retained placentas and lower growth rates.

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MINEROL Vita-Min-Phosphorous

Drought mix for sheep and cattle containing vitamins, phosphorous,
non-protein-nitrogen, sulphur and trace-minerals.

Active Constituents

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