NorthStar Products - Paste Plus

A Microbial With Vitamins

Past Plus is a direct-fed microbial product that improves the animal's intestinal microbial balance by inoculating the intestinal walls with good bacteria where they attach and grow and crowd out the "harmful" bacteria.

Ideal for routine preventative maintenance programs

On cows after calving
At weaning time
Before and after transporting

How to administer
Paste Plus is easy to administer. The tube of Paste Plus and the dispensing gun are very similar to those used for caulking. A simple pull of the trigger expels the proper dosage of the gel-like paste into the calf's mouth and back of the tongue. A one calf dose can cost as little as 24 cents ~ an extremely small investment in getting a calf off to healthy start.

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After deworming or antibiotic therapy

Allows more efficient utilization of the nutrients in feed.
Provides supplemental nutrition with vitamins A, D3, B12, Niacin & Thiamin and other vital ingredients
Contains live, naturally occurring lactic acid producing bacteria and live yeast cell product
Improves feed efficiency & average daily gain
Extremely effective way to give newborn calves a healthy start
Easy to administer
Safe - no withdrawal

Price
32 cc tube (AC9000)	(8 doses/ $.96 per treatment)	$ 7.65
300 cc tube (AC9001)	(30 doses/$.24 per treatment)	$19.00
Dispensing Gun (AC9002)		$23.50

Paste Plus™ is a trademark of and manufactured by Medipharm, Des Moines, IA.

Producer’s success with Paste Plus

"When a cow goes off feed I give her a dose of Paste Plus. By feeding Paste Plus, her appetite increases, which enables her milk production to bounce back to a normal level. Since using Paste Plus we also have experienced fewer displaced abdomens. Paste Plus really works."

—Jim and Pat Krause, Edgar, WI 75 Registered Holsteins

"I was having trouble with milk fever and the vet was out at our farm all the time. My NorthStar AI Technician suggested I try Paste Plus and I have been using it for two years now. We dose every cow before and after freshening. Since starting on Paste Plus I have 50 percent fewer cases of milk fever. The money I have spent on Paste Plus has saved me thousands of dollars in vet bills."

~ Merlin Coblentz, 28 cows

Ingredients
Paste Plus is a direct-fed microbial product that contains live, naturally occurring lactic acid producing bacteria, a live yeast cell product and a significant amount of vitamins A, D3, B12, Niacin and Thiamine for supplemental nutritional support.

The living organism in Paste Plus contributes to the well being of animals by improving the intestinal microbial balance and is considered a beneficial bacteria. All negative types of bacteria reproduce themselves every 23 to 60 minutes. But because the major organism in Paste Plus reproduces itself every 18 to 19 minutes it out-reproduces the "harmful" bacteria. Paste Plus can inoculate the intestinal walls with good bacteria where they attach and grow and crowd out the "harmful" bacteria. Then the intestinal tract will contain a majority of beneficial bacteria, allowing the animal to utilize the nutrients in feed more efficiently. The beneficial bacteria also produce lactic acid which slightly alters the pH in the intestinal tract to levels that may not be favorable for undesirable organisms to grow.

A newborn calf has a totally sterile stomach and gastro intestinal tract. Only after microorganisms are introduced into the gut from colostrum milk, dirt, mud, manure and air does the gut start reproducing the ingested bacteria. When Paste Plus is given soon after birth, the beneficial microorganisms reproduce themselves to a point where they soon inhabit all the living space. When a calf picks up a "harmful" bacteria, like E. coli (which causes scours), it basically passes through the gut because there is no room for it to attach and grow. Paste Plus is an extremely effective way to get newborn calves off to a great start.

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