Stress can arise in many situations in a dairy animal’s life, such as: weaning, transportation, breeding, freshening, or vaccination.

A university study² indicated that supplementing trace minerals in pregnant cows with Multimin 90, along with a scours vaccine before freshening, tended to result in increased colostrum quality in cows by increasing specific antibodies. Calves consuming the higher quality colostrum tended to have more specific antibodies against scour-causing viruses than control calves.

The average case of clinical mastitis in the United States costs $569 including both direct costs, such as therapeutics or non-saleable milk, and indirect costs, such as future production or reproductive loss.^4,5

University research results showed⁶ that when strategic trace mineral supplementation with a single Multimin 90 injection was given to dairy cows with elevated somatic cell counts, there was reduced incidence of chronic clinical mastitis, particularly in first lactation cows. Additionally, in cows with three or more lactations, there was a tendency to increase cure of subclinical mastitis (P=0.08).

In another university study, research results showed³ a reduction in somatic cell counts, decreased clinical mastitis in multi-lactation cows, and decreased subclinical mastitis when cows were supplemented with zinc, copper, manganese and selenium by Multimin 90 injection at dry-off, 30 days pre-freshening and 35 days in milk.