Choosing the right probiotic key to healthy calves

Crystal Wood
Mar 3, 2022
Mar 3, 2022

Jennifer Schutz, a technical service manager for Chr. Hansen, discusses the importance of probiotics for calves at the 2022 NCBA Cattle Industry Convention in Houston Feb. 3.
Midwest Messenger photo by Crystal Wood

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Bacteria are essential to life on Earth. Trillions of bacteria, good and bad, inhabit an organism’s gastrointestinal tract, waging war within. These microscopic armies, composed of several hundred different species, are constantly working together or in opposition to one another in an attempt to carry out their own functions.

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