Dear Escribano,

  Please see the below link, which reviews the basic and applied developments in young ruminant nutrition; a FAO publication.

http://www.fao.org/3/a-i2439e.pdf

(see page no. 33 for research details on sodium butyrate)

Regars,

Mahesh

Dear Dr. Mahesh,

Thanks very much for the information. However, it provide with information on butyrate use in young animals. However, it does not content information with regard to the effect of such product in early days on future milk production (when the animal is an adult lactting one).

Regards,

Alfredo.

it doesn't affect future milk production.

to my knowledge only 'milk feeding' was investigated for long term effects.

it could be good thesis for future researches.

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for the answer. So... It doesn't affect or it has not been studied? I think that it could improve milk production efficency, due to higher absoprtion rate of nutrients in rumen (in turn due to rumen papillae development).

What do you think?

Regards.

it is important to increase ADG (Average dairy gain) for future production (Van amburgh and Sweeney, JAS, 2013)

we can reach to this goal with appropriate milk feeding OR hay provision OR formulated starter OR improving health issues.

sodium butyrate? how much does it cost to farmers when we can reach to optimum ADG with above mentioned?

Exactly, this is why I am asking the question Daniel! Trying to found out the cost-effectiveness of the use of sodium butyrate taking into account future milk production.