Riverina Truelik® Pasture Supplement provides a comprehensive profile of protein, energy, vitamins and minerals that will supply additional nutrients to cattle, and help maximise the nutrition of the entire herd.
Truelik® will work on both green and dry pastures when there is leaf matter still present and pastures are abundant. When pastures become stalky contact your Top View Rural agent, or a Riverina representative.
Please read the warnings and precautions before using this product.
Features
- Truelik® contains nutrients like phosphorus, copper, selenium and cobalt, that are often limited in pastures.
- Truelik® is molasses-based and uses suspension technology which improves the uptake by evenly spreading the additivies throught the supplement.
- Truelik® consumption is controlled using the "sweet and sour" method. By blending sweet and sour mixes together palatibility is regulated which can either encourage or limit uptake.
- Truelik® contains FLAVECO™ which supplies 20mg/kg of Flavophospholipol for the improvement of productivity in cattle by stimulating feed conversion and thus growth rate efficiency. FLAVECO™ works by balancing the bacterial population in the rumen.
Full service programme
Top View Rural provides a full, on-farm Truelik® service programme:
- tubs are provided
- we deliver Truelik® on-farm directly into tubs or thousand litre shuttles
- consumption is monitored and evaluated until intake levels are optimum
- tubs are checked and serviced regularly, as required, or as requested
What this means for you:
- no upfront investment
- your cattle feed supplemented with no manual labour on your part
We can also assist you by sourcing dry feed if you do not have sufficient pasture to support the supplementation programme.
Why use Truelik® pasture supplement?
Soil types in many parts of southern Queensland and northern New South Wales are inherently low in major minerals and trace elements such as phosphorus, copper, selenium and cobalt. Even during a good season in these areas native and improved pastures can have low levels of some or all of these minerals. As pastures mature their digestibility decreases and the mineral availability also decreases.
Figure: Plant maturity directly relates to plant digestibility and nutritive value.
(Proceedings from "Supplementary feeding beef cattle & sheep to best utilise available pasture supply." NSW Agriculture, Manilla, 15 August 1997)
Many minerals are a prerequisite for cattle fertility traits including:
- cycling
- semen quality
- conception
- gestation
- ease of calving
Identification of your limiting minerals is important, as short falls in these minerals can create production constraints which may compromise fertility in beef and dairy cattle productivity. Be aware that it is possible to have nutrients in excess.
Supplementing breeding and growing cattle on pasture helps balance the total diet, which can assist with:
- better forage utilisation, especially on dry leafy pasture
- improved animal health
- improved cycling
- improved body condition at the time of calving
- better conception rates
- healthier calves
- improved growth rates on leafy pastures.
Some other advantages of using Truelik® pasture supplement:
- Truelik® is formulated for all seasons
- hassle free service programme
- cost effective
- excellent for backgrounding cattle for feedlots.
Important! Read before use.
What you need to know before using Truelik®
Truelik® is a supplement, not a complete feed! Please observe the following warnings and precautions:
- Do not feed to starving, thirsty or salt-deficient cattle.
- Water needs to be available at all times.
- Ensure sufficient dry matter is available to cattle at all times. The recommended minimum amount of dry matter intake is 2.5% of body weight. Top View Rural can assist you in sourcing dry feed.
- If intake exceeds 1.3 kg/head/day discontinue feeding and contact Top View Rural.
- It is recommended that a 5-in-1 or 7-in-1 vaccination programme is administered to all stock prior to supplementing.
- Feed only to cattle. Do not feed to sheep or any other animals.
- Warning: Do not allow dogs, horses or other equines access to this feed as it may be fatal.
The information on this page is up-to-date as of 19 August 2014.
For the latest information about Truelik® visit the Riverina website at www.riverina.com.au.
FLAVECO™ is a trademark of International Animal Health Products Pty Ltd.
Truelik® is a registered trademark of Riverina (Australia) Pty Ltd.
