Category: Bovine Health

Transfer Factor Technology

Our Transfer Factor Technology is derived from a proprietary blend of bioactive peptides. These bioactive peptides are extracted from bovine colostrum and egg yolks. This blend combines unique plant-derived heteropolysaccharides, lactic acid-producing probiotics, and highly bioavailable micronutrients. The Synergy of this combination of ingredients enables the “immune intelligence” (the body’s ability to recognize and remove harmful cells) in our formulas to assist your cattle in naturally producing an effective, rapid, and appropriate immune response.

Immune Primer

Like colostrum (or first milk), which transfers vital immune knowledge from mother to newborn, our Newborn Primer formulas educate and activate the function of the mother and calf’s immune cells within hours and without side effects using our patented Transfer Factor Technology.

Patented formulas provide technology and opportunity.

Our patented formulas provide the technology and opportunity for newborn and adult ruminants to absorb the equivalent immune information and education found in six gallons of colostrum in an easy-to-deliver form. Our field veterinarians use these products as adjunctive and preventative therapy in treatment programs with or without antibiotics. The key to this approach is modifying the animals’ response to stress, specifically cortisol production, and maintaining a highly functional and vigilant immune system.

Reduce Cortisol

The key to this approach is to modify the animals’ normal response to stress, specifically by reducing increased cortisol production, thereby maintaining a highly functional and vigilant immune system. Our studies demonstrate that we can reduce excessive cortisol release (by 42%) associated with stress using a safe and economical product, conveniently delivered at all stages of production.

Antiviral

Immune Primer can increase the animal’s response to antibiotics and is our only antiviral agent available for practical field application. Our newer, advanced formula has allowed for a smaller dose, which is more cost-effective while retaining all the advantages of the original product.

• The dosage for the Newborn Sustained Release is 2 Bollettes on Day 1
• The dosage for the Powder is ½ oz. best given by drench Day 1, Day 2, and Day 12.

The Immune Primer Powder or Bollette causes a similar response to that of the vaccine: initial doses stimulate and upmodulate the immune system for 12 to 14 days and create an amnestic (memory response). This immune system response means a third single dose further upmodulates the immune system for an additional 14 days.

Immune Primer Powder or Bollettes increases the immune system response for 26 Days.

This coverage mimics the 26-day incubation period of Bovine Respiratory Disease (Shipping Fever). Not only does it increase immune system response, but it is also our only antiviral tool.

• Newborn Primer has been shown to produce a 450% vaccine enhancement response. It improved antibody production from our vaccine studies by an average of 450% over baseline.
• Newborn Primer enhances the effectiveness of any antibiotic used with it. The animal’s response to treatment improves, allowing for less antibiotic use with fewer retreats and chronics.
• Newborn Primer helps decrease or blunt the elevated cortisol levels (the stress hormone) caused by shipping, which helps maintain a healthy and normal functioning immune system.
• Newborn Primer improves genetic expression and performance, e.g., fewer days on feed, less feed consumed, and improved yield and grade by enhancing health.

Ramaekers Nutrition

For more than 50 years, Ramaekers Nutrition has primarily focused on researching and developing natural immunotherapy supplements.

Ramaekers Nutrition’s products reflect a culmination of global research and clinical experience. Dr. Ramaekers is passionate about improving animal welfare. He is proud to be on the cutting edge of veterinary medicine (meet our veterinary team) and nutrition. 

Unique Formulas

• Newborn Primer
• Newborn Sustained Release
• Newborn Primer Paste
• Newborn Premix

Help educate and boost the immune system for overall health and vitality. Our products can upregulate and downregulate the immune system. Thus, they are actual immune modulators. Immune modulators “prime” the immune system to react appropriately. Only when needed and will not overstimulate or activate without an external stimulus, such as a disease-causing organism.

Transfer Factor Technology

Our Transfer Factor Technology is derived from a proprietary blend of bioactive peptides extracted from bovine colostrum and egg yolks. This blend combines unique plant-derived heteropolysaccharides, lactic acid-producing probiotics, and highly bioavailable micronutrients. The Synergy of this combination of ingredients enables the “immune intelligence” (the body’s ability to recognize and remove harmful cells) in our formulas to assist your cattle in naturally producing an effective, rapid, and appropriate immune response.

Herd Health

While Medicine is the Science of Disease, we feel that Nutrition is the Science of Health. The bottom line is that, regardless of your animal health protocol, enhanced immune function is made possible by Ramaekers Nutrition’s orally-delivered formulas (learn more about our sustained release formulas) to enhance your current herd health protocols. Our formulas will help your nutritional program and bolster profit potential in the following ways:

• Significantly fewer treatments and deaths
• Better response to existing nutrition programs and health protocols
• Maximized state of wellness for better gain and reproductive outcomes
• Improved genetic expression by addressing sub-clinical disease issues

Patented formulas provide technology and opportunity.

Our patented Newborn Primer and Adult Primer formulas provide the technology and opportunity for the newborn or adult ruminant to absorb the equivalent of immune information and education found in six gallons of colostrum in an easy-to-deliver form. Our field veterinarians use these immunotherapy products as an adjunct to vaccination programs, as stress managers (decreases cortisol levels up to 42%), or as an enhancement to therapy protocols with or without antibiotic use. The key to this approach is modifying the animals’ response to stress, specifically cortisol production, and maintaining a highly functional and vigilant immune system.

Reduce Cortisol

The key to this approach is to modify the animals’ normal response to stress, specifically by reducing increased cortisol production, thereby maintaining a highly functional and vigilant immune system. Our studies demonstrate that we can reduce excessive cortisol release (by 42%) associated with stress using a safe and economical product, conveniently delivered at all stages of production.

Stockers and Feeders

Protect your investment on the front side — decrease losses on the backside.

Increased Profits

Field trials on over 500,000 heads of cattle have consistently demonstrated improvements in health and vigor, resulting in increased profits when using Ramaekers Nutrition Immunotherapy products.

• Decreased sickness — below 10%
• Reduced deaths — below 2.5%
• Improved feed conversion
• Decreased Days on Feed
• Vaccine titer enhancement
• Improved carcass quality
• Improved Reproduction and Fertility (see reproduction and fertility)
• For All Natural programs — improved Health means keeping more head “on the program.”

Dr. Ramaekers and his field veterinarians have a particular interest in exploring and researching the following areas:

• Transportation stress reduction to help maintain immune function
• Enhanced embryo quality and increasing numbers produced
• Improving embryo transplantation and the recipient’s conception
• Improving spermatogenesis leads to improved volume and concentration
• Reducing the incidence of Mycoplasma
• Reducing the incidence of BVD (Bovine Viral Diarrhea) and BRD (Bovine Respiratory Disease)
• Decreasing pneumonia and lung infections
• Decreased shipping fever
• Reducing DOF (days on feed)
• Improving feed conversion and daily gain
• Increasing weaning weights
• Improving carcass quality and yield
• Decreased calf scours
• Decreasing E. coli diarrheas
• Improved viability of newborns
• Reduction in pinkeye

Ramaekers Nutrition

For more than 50 years, Ramaekers Nutrition has primarily focused on researching and developing natural immunotherapy supplements.

Ramaekers Nutrition’s products reflect a culmination of global research and clinical experience. Dr. Ramaekers is passionate about improving animal welfare. He is proud to be on the cutting edge of veterinary medicine (meet our veterinary team) and nutrition. 

Unique Formulas

Our unique formulas:

• Newborn Primer
• Newborn Premix
• Adult Primer
• Adult Premix

Help educate and boost the immune system for overall health and vitality. Our products can upregulate and downregulate the immune system. Thus, they are actual immune modulators. Immune modulators “prime” the immune system to react appropriately. Only when needed and will not overstimulate or activate without an external stimulus, such as a disease-causing organism.

Transfer Factor Technology

Our Transfer Factor Technology is derived from a proprietary blend of bioactive peptides extracted from bovine colostrum and egg yolks. This blend combines unique plant-derived heteropolysaccharides, lactic acid-producing probiotics, and highly bioavailable micronutrients. The Synergy of this combination of ingredients enables the “immune intelligence” (the body’s ability to recognize and remove harmful cells) in our formulas to assist your cattle in naturally producing an effective, rapid, and appropriate immune response.

Immune Primer

Like colostrum (or first milk), which transfers vital immune knowledge from mother to newborn, our Newborn Primer and Adult Primer formulas educate and activate the function of the mother and calf’s immune cells within hours and without side effects using our patented Transfer Factor Technology.

Herd Health

While Medicine is the Science of Disease, we feel that Nutrition is the Science of Health. The bottom line is that regardless of your animal health protocol, enhanced immune function made possible by Ramaekers Nutrition’s orally-delivered formulas enhances your current herd health protocols. Our formulas will help your nutritional program and bolster profit potential in the following ways:

• Significantly fewer treatments and deaths
• Better response to existing nutrition programs and health protocols
• Maximized state of wellness for better gain and reproductive outcomes (see reproduction and fertility)
• Improved genetic expression by addressing sub-clinical disease issues

Patented formulas provide technology and opportunity.

Our patented formulas provide the technology and opportunity for newborn and adult ruminants to absorb the equivalent immune information and education found in 6 gallons of colostrum in an easy-to-deliver form. Our field veterinarians use these products as adjunctive and preventative therapy in treatment programs with or without antibiotics.

Reduce Cortisol

The key to this approach is to modify the animals’ typical response to stress, specifically increased cortisol production, thereby maintaining a highly functional and vigilant immune system. Our studies demonstrate that we can reduce excessive cortisol release (by 42%) associated with stress using a safe and economical product, conveniently delivered at all stages of production.

Cows and cattle: Protect your investment on the front end — decrease losses on the back end.

Increased Profits

Trials repeatedly have shown an improvement in Health and vigor that translates to

• Decreased sickness to below 6%
• Decreased death loss to .2-1%
• Increase in weight gain and feed conversion
• Decreased days on feed
• Increased performance ↑efficiency with a 15% improvement
• Increased yield ↑2-3%
• Increased Prime and Choice grades
• For “All Naturals,” Increased Health results in an increased number of cattle on the program to receive the all-natural bonus at harvest.

Birth to Harvest

In the “all-natural” business of buying single-source, preconditioned cattle, our formulas help control BRD (Bovine Respiratory Disease). Prevention is paramount, as we know that 46% of healthy cattle harbor Mycoplasma in their respiratory tracts, as identified via PCR testing. For optimal results, it is essential to enroll all cattle in the program to maintain their health from birth to harvest. Our current plan calls for the following:

• 2 Newborn Sustained Release for newborn calves to educate the immune system to 3000+ pathogens
• 1 Adult Sustained Release Bolus at processing or branding
• 2 Adult Sustained Release Bolus at feedlot arrival

This program is an adjunct to proper parasite and vaccination programs. This program should reduce the average 12-18% dropout rate to 5-6% sick.

Note: Calves treated with immunotherapy: 40%

Ramaekers Nutrition

For more than 50 years, Ramaekers Nutrition has primarily focused on researching and developing natural immunotherapy supplements.

Ramaekers Nutrition’s products reflect a culmination of global research and clinical experience. Dr. Ramaekers is passionate about improving animal welfare. He is proud to be on the cutting edge of veterinary medicine (meet our veterinary team) and nutrition. 

Unique Formulas

Our unique formulas:

• Newborn Primer
• Newborn Premix
• Adult Primer
• Adult Premix

Help educate and boost the immune system for overall health and vitality. Our products can upregulate and downregulate the immune system. Thus, they are actual immune modulators. Immune modulators “prime” the immune system to react appropriately. Only when needed and will not overstimulate or activate without an external stimulus, such as a disease-causing organism.

Transfer Factor Technology

Our Transfer Factor Technology is derived from a proprietary blend of bioactive peptides. These bioactive peptides are extracted from bovine colostrum and egg yolks. This blend combines unique plant-derived heteropolysaccharides, lactic acid-producing probiotics, and highly bioavailable micronutrients. The Synergy of this combination of ingredients enables the “immune intelligence” (the body’s ability to recognize and remove harmful cells) in our Newborn Immune Primer and Adult Immune Primer formulas to assist your cattle in naturally producing an effective, rapid, and appropriate immune response.

Improve your bottom line with a proven, multi-patented, and natural solution.

• Reduce antibiotic costs and treatments.
• Reduce culls and the death loss of newborns.
• Reduce the age of heifer freshening due to a faster growth rate.
• Reduce the mastitis rate and improve treatment success.
• Improve fertility (AI, donor/recipient)
• Healthier transitional cows.

How do we do this?

Our cutting-edge immune enhancement enables your livestock to express their genetic potential, keeping their Health at optimum levels.

Patented formulas provide technology and opportunity.

Our patented formulas provide the technology and opportunity for the newborn and adult ruminant to absorb the equivalent immune information and education found in six gallons of colostrum. Our field veterinarians use these products as adjunctive and preventative therapy in treatment programs with or without antibiotics. The key to this approach is modifying the animals’ response to stress, specifically cortisol production, and maintaining a highly functional and vigilant immune system.

Advisory

We recommend incorporating these natural supplements, Newborn Primer and Adult Primer, into a proven herd health program that includes appropriate vaccine protocols, rations, and, most importantly, mineral and trace mineral supplements. We have found in our case studies that by integrating our supplements with a herd health program, we have seen significant results with 

• BVD (Bovine Viral Diarrhea)
• BRD (Bovine Respiratory Disease)
• Calf Scours
• Lungers
• Mastitis or Somatic Cell Counts
• And many other health issues