Developed to manage intestinal health and support optimum gut integrity and performance, OREGO-STIM is a consistently high quality, 100 per cent natural oregano essential oil based feed additive.
It has been formulated to be low inclusion for inclusion in milk and calf starter diets, providing an effective, homogenous mix.
Natural OEO is proven to provide a multitude of benefits and properties which support calf development and lifetime performance, including:
- appetite enhancement;
- anti-oxidant;
- immunomodulatory/anti-inflammatory;
- anti-microbial; and
- modulate gut microbiota.
Calf gut health importance
Gut health is vital in promoting optimal calf growth and enhancing lifetime performance.
Healthy calves make more visits to milk and concentrate feeders than diseased calves.
Heavier calves at weaning, and those with a higher average daily gain from birth to weaning demonstrate a higher milk production during first lactation.
A greater ADG and bodyweight is also associated with improved fertility in heifers.
Calves fed OREGO-STIM have demonstrated the following benefits:
- better feed intake;
- better gut health;
- increased growth rates and greater weaning weights;
- lower levels of Cryptosporidia oocysts in faeces; and
- reduced levels of antimicrobial resistant E. coli.
Waste milk supplemented with OREGO-STIM:
- resulted in reduced levels of E. coli with antimicrobial resistance to fourth generation cephalosporins in the faeces;
- reduced levels of resistant E. coli to 12.6 per cent, compared to 44.1 per cent in the control group of calves;
- delayed the emergence of AMR to seven days, compared to emergence at three days in control-fed calves;
- beneficially altered the gut microbiome; and
- tended to reduce E. coli counts in the faeces.
Benefits were maintained even after OREGO-STIM supplementation was stopped.
OREGO-STIM is derived from cultivars of Origanum vulgare spp. hirtum that are specific to Anpario.
Anpario’s oregano is grown using organic, pesticide-free principles. Testing is carried out prior to harvest, at oil extraction and final product to ensure uniformity of 35 compounds in every batch.
The main active components, carvacrol, ρ-cymene and thymol are established to have strong anti-microbial effects.
Other compounds, such as β-caryophyllene have anti-inflammatory effects whilst γ−terpinene has strong anti-oxidant properties.
OREGO-STIM is available in powder and liquid form.
For more information, visit: www.anpario.com.au or phone (02) 9477 7944.