Matthew Pye, The High Farm

Previous to feeding X-Zelit we ended up treating the majority of the cows with calcium before, during and after calving. When they calved the cows were slow to get going and would spend up to a week post calving, in the straw pen before being ready to join the main herd. X-Zelit has definitely reduced the worry that surrounded calving with only a handful of milk fever cases since we started using it. The cows recover much quicker and are able to return to the fresh milking group within a short time of calving.

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Before using X-Zelit we had tried everything from complex diets to analysing minerals to alleviate and minimise the risk of milk fever in our Jersey herd. We found them to be far too complex and not really effective. X-Zelit is the one thing that actually works and is simple to use, especially as our cows are at grass. We feed X-Zelit to 3rd calving cows and older as part of a 20% concentrate at 2kg/cow/day with add lib haylage 10 days before calving, its really easy. It has reduced our cases of milk fever and resultant metabolic issues such as retained cleansings.