Summary:
- Each summer up to 100 days of some degree of heat stress.
- Rumen pH is lower and fluctuates more during heat stress due to:
- Shifting of feed intake.
- Less rumination.
- Less blood buffering capacity and therefore less carbonate in saliva.
- So it is good to know that: Mervit Basic Buffer is like “Duracell” It just continues buffering!
- Buffering is not only important in the rumen but equally important in intestine and blood!
- Mervit Basic Buffer also helps to maintain milk fat%
- Aim for a DCAD > 300 meq/kg DM and > 18 g K/ kg DM.
Supplier : Nuscience BV
Country : Belgium
Remarks : Powder
Mervit Basic Buffer
Buffer quality monitoring
- All Mervit Basic Buffer buffering raw materials are regularly checked for buffering
characteristics. - Additional testing of raw materials on in situ rumen incubation and in vitro stomach and small
intestine simulation are performed to determine the fraction available for intestinal buffering. - The Mervit Basic Buffer formula is optimized using the outcome of this.
- The final Mervit Basic Buffer products are regularly assessed for buffering profile.
- The in house buffer profile determination process is validated by comparing it with methods
which resemble typical rumen dynamics. - In the winter of 2019 the Mervit Basic Buffer range formula has been further optimized. The buffering capacity is now >10% higher in comparison with before.
- At least 30% of the new formula is effectively available for buffering in the gut .
Relative buffer profile of various buffers
Total cumulative buffering capacity in time
