Vitamins For Feedlot Cattle
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✓ B-vitamin requirements of feedlot cattle are not known. Stress and/or illness can increase requirements, resulting in shortterm deficiencies. B-vitamin supplementation, particularly in the first 10 days after arrival in the feedlot, may improve performance and/or reduce morbidity. Depending on the Bvitamin, supplementation may alleviate nutrient deficiencies of rumen microbes, or of the animal itself, or both microbes and the animal. In other cases, supplementation may have no benefit whatsoever if microbes degrade the added B-vitamins for energy.
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