Early life administration of a Megasphaera elsdenii capsule as a tool improves performance and rumen development in dairy-beef calves under subacute ruminal acidosis risk
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Ruminal health and solid feed dry matter intake (DMI) is essential for calf growth and development. However, calves can experience decreases in rumen pH leading to subacute ruminal acidosis (SARA), as they transition from liquid to solid diets during weaning. In adult dairy and beef cattle, nutritional interventions with probiotics containing the lactate utilizing bacteria Megasphaera elsdenii have been successfully adopted to prevent SARA. Yet, there is limited information on SARA prevention strategies for calves. Thus, the objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of an oral probiotic capsule containing a live culture of Megasphaera elsdenii NCIMB 41125 (Lactipro FLX Calf, MS Biotec) on performance and rumen anatomical development of dairy-beef calves under SARA risk.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".