

Newborn calves are sensitive to environmental changes and colonization by opportunistic and potentially pathogenic bacteria, which may lead to their high morbidity and mortality, causing huge economic and productivity losses that undermine healthy and sustainable development of animal husbandry.
Moreover, even if calves recover from the diarrhea, their subsequent growth and development are hindered, which later affects their productivity in adulthood. Supplementing probiotics is a comparatively easier way to manipulate the microbiome during early life, when gut microbiota is being established, because in later stages it is less effective as the rumen is large and highly anaerobic.
We have developed our product Diayeast Junior a solid state fermented consortium of multispecies probiotic viz. Saccharomyces boulardii, Lactobacillus sporogenes and Bacillus subtilis which improves calf growth performance by improving immune function and balancing structure of intestinal microbiota. Diayeast Junior reduces the incidence of diarrhea and improve the health of calves It also reduces heat stress and improves dry matter intake leading to overall increase in weight gain. Consortium of probiotics improves the immune responses by increasing serum IgA and IgM concentration leading to reduced infection.
