Bovikalc®
Serving up quality calcium.
Quality calcium
Excellent management of fresh cows is not an easy job, and it’s important not to take it for granted. Awareness and attentive monitoring at freshening is vital, and regular consultations with your veterinarian can help focus efforts in the right place. However, when you choose Bovikalc® to maintain healthy calcium levels in your fresh cows, you can rest assured knowing that you’re providing them with high-quality calcium that’s backed by peer-reviewed, published research.
Bovikalc® is an oral calcium supplement for fresh cows that contains a unique composition of calcium chloride and calcium sulfate that effectively provides fast- and slow-release calcium supplementation to freshening cows.
Today's calcium challenge
At freshening, cows face an important challenge: maintaining their calcium balance. During this period, a cow’s calcium demand increases by 200 to 300% in a single day. This demand far exceeds the calcium they can get from feed, resulting in the need to mobilize calcium from their bones. However, this process can take time, which leaves as few as 22% of freshening cows with the ability to easily maintain their calcium levels1,2.
Unfortunately, when a freshening cow’s calcium blood level drops, they rarely show any signs that they may be suffering from what’s known as Subclinical Hypocalcemia (SH), which can impair productivity and put the cow at greater risk of health issues or even culling1,2.
Treat all freshening cows with Bovikalc®
Over the years, oral supplementation has been identified as the most efficient way to supplement calcium to cows at freshening, with the administration of a calcium bolus being recognized as the easiest and safest among all formulations.3
With its composition of calcium chloride and calcium sulfate, Bovikalc® can be used as both a whole herd and targeted cow approach for maintaining normal calcium levels and supporting a critical phase of the lactation cycle.
After calving, when blood calcium levels are at their lowest4, Bovikalc® helps to maintain calcium levels with just two boluses administered 12 hours apart. These two boluses provide fast and extended support4,5 that, when used as a part of a whole herd protocol, supports optimal milk production.6
Our state-of-the-art production provides guaranteed quality
When you choose Bovikalc®, you can know that you are providing your cows with high-quality calcium.
Our state-of-the-art production process ensures a high-quality bolus that is uniform and provides readily available calcium to every freshening cow every time.
When fresh cows get off to a strong start, everybody wins. For herds to thrive economically, they need both good health and good production. Most of the things that will get you there are not magic; they are simple. Often the hardest part is doing the simple things correctly over and over again.
Speak with your veterinarian about the risk of Subclinical Hypocalcemia (SH) in your herd.
Related Articles
1. Rodriguez et al. 2017 Associations between subclinical hypocalcemia and post parturient diseases in dairy cows. J. Dairy Sci 100:7427-34.
2. Caixeta et al. 2017 Association between subclinical hypocalcemia in the first 3 days of lactation and reproductive performance of dairy cows. Theriogenology;94:1-7.
3. McArt JAA, Oetzel GR. Considerations in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Early Lactation Calcium Disturbances. Vet Clin North Am Food Anim Pract. 2023 Jul;39(2):241-259.
4. Sampson et al. Effects of calcium chloride and calcium sulfate in an oral bolus given as a supplement to postpartum dairy cows. Vet Ther. 2009 Fall;10(3):131-9.
5. Bovikalc® label.
6. A stochastic estimate of the economic impact of oral calcium supplementation in postparturient dairy cows. McArt JA, Oetzel GR. J Dairy Sci. 2015 Oct;98(10):7408-18.
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