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Lamb Start Mix with Deccox® 6% 20kg
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Lamb Start Mix with Deccox® 6% is a textured starter feed for orphaned or surplus lambs from four days old homed on both commercial and lifestyle farming operations. This starter feed is also suitable as a creep feed for lambs on ewes, prior to and after weaning.
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SKU#: PID00968
With added Deccox®, Lamb Start Mix aids in the treatment and prevention of coccidiosis in young sheep caused by Eimeria ovinoidalis, E. crandallis, E. parva and E. bakuensis..
- Contains digestible grains, fibre, molasses and pellets to increase dry matter intake and support rumen development
- By developing the rumen early, the risk of feed intake checks at weaning is reduced
- Essential vitamins, minerals and trace elements promote optimal growth
- Highly palatable feed encourages hard feed intake
- Major nutrients: Crude protein 19%, fat (min) 3%, selenium 1 mg/kg, digestible energy 12.8 MJ ME/kg of dry matter
- Meat withholding period: For sheep, goats, cattle and poultry - nil
- Milk withholding period: For sheep, goats, cattle - intended for sale for human consumption must be discarded during treatment and for not less than 35 days following the last treatment
Specifications
| Ingredients | Cereal grains (wheat, maize, barley and triticale), cereal by-products, legumes, lucerne chaff, oilseed meals, by-products, molasses, vegetable oil, minerals, vitamins, essential oils, flavour, organic acids and Deccox® 6%. |
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| Dose Rate | For prevention only, aim to feed a daily dose of 0.5 mg/kg body weight of decoquinate. For example, 126 g Lamb Start Mix with Deccox® per 10 kg lamb. To aid in the treatment of coccidiosis provide a daily dose of decoquinate of 1 mg/kg body weight. For example, 252 g Lamb Start Mix with Deccox® per 10 kg lamb. Feed for at least 28 days during periods of coccidiosis exposure or when experience indicates that coccidiosis is likely to be a hazard. |
| Feeding rates | As a supplement to milk feeding, feed ad-lib from four days of age. Healthy lambs older than four weeks of age, over 9 kg body weight, and typically eating 200 g/head/day, may be weaned off milk and onto pasture. After weaning, slowly reduce Lamb Start Mix intake over the next six weeks to 85 g/head/day. Introduce gradually to avoid digestive upsets. |
| Suitable for | Lambs. |
| Withholding periods | cattle, cattle - milk intended for sale for human consumption must be discarded during treatment and for not less than 35 days following the last treatment., goats, Meat: sheep, poultry – nil. Milk: sheep |
| Major nutrients | Crude protein 19%, fat (min) 3%, selenium 1mg/kg and digestible energy 12.8MJ ME/kg DM. |
| Tech Sheet | NRM Lamb Start Mix with Deccox® 6% 20kg - Tech Sheet |
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