Lynette Greenwood from Alnor Partners in Learmonth, Central Victoria has used X-Zelit for three and a half years. After moving away from a self-mixed anionic salt approach, she says the cows transition cleanly, calve more easily and simply do not need the milk fever bottles anymore.
Hear how X-Zelit solved the palatability and wastage problems she was having with a DIY anionic salt mix, and how it now fits directly into the milker’s ration.
dry-land cows in Central Victoria
used as part of the transition program
past their use-by date in the container
Lynette had tried mixing her own anionic salt, but the cows would not eat enough of it and too much was wasted. X-Zelit gave her a cleaner, simpler way to manage the transition period using the ration the cows already knew.
Before X-Zelit, Lynette was using a self-mixed anionic salt approach. The issue was not just the milk fever pressure — it was the practicality. The cows did not want to eat enough of the mix, and too much of it was wasted.
For a 500-cow dry-land herd, that made transition management harder than it needed to be.
Lynette now feeds 500 g/cow/day of X-Zelit, plus a bit of magnesium, mixed into the milker’s ration.
Because it is built into the feed the cows will be eating after calving, there is no big ration change and no unnecessary upset to the rumen at the point when cows need to transition smoothly.
Lynette’s strongest proof point is simple: her milk fever bottles are now sitting in the container, unused and past their use-by date.
She also reports better muscle tone, fewer retained afterbirths, no LDAs and cows coming in clean after calving.
Lynette describes a transition program that supports cows through calving and helps them start their lactation without the same metabolic drag.
The cost of milk fever is not just the treatment bottle. It is the time, stress, delayed recovery and knock-on problems that can follow a difficult transition. For Lynette, X-Zelit has helped simplify that whole window.
Treatment bottles now sit unused and past their use-by date.
Better muscle tone and cows pushing calves out more simply.
No retained afterbirths reported in the testimonial.
Lynette reports they are not getting LDAs.
X-Zelit replaced a difficult salt-mix routine with a practical feeding program that fits the farm.
“All my milk-fever bottles are in the container and they’re past their use-by date.”
“Better muscle tone, and they push calves out simply.”
“We’re not getting any LDAs.”
“I would never go back to not using it. Never.”
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