16/08/2024
π€ A big question on many people's lips... What are the ingredients of Vermate. Why? Because it works so well for any and all animal species.
It is important to understand that Vermate contains, literally billions, of microbial species. Our label will never be big or long enough to list every single specie. Something to be thrilled about, because this is just how diverse this product is. Isn't it great to know that the product you buy does not only contain a hand full of lab incubated micro organisms? But, that it contains the full spectrum of microbes to enhance a healthy and replenished gut microbiome. Further, Vermate consists of humic and fulvic acids which provides your animal with the macro and micro minerals it needs. There are NO chemicals added to Vermate. You buy it in its raw, natural and organic form. π This explanation is all in short. For a longer, more in depth read, see below exactly where Vermate comes from: π
The soil environment can be regarded as the host for most microbial species on earth. It is the most diverse environment where microbes naturally occur, and this is where Vermate comes from. DERIVED from soil.
It is a well known fact that animals, when given the choice, would prefer to drink dirt water than water that is unspoiled with soil. As a matter of fact, most animals in nature will walk halfway into a pond before drinking. The reason for this is to stir up the silt at the bottom of the pond with their feet before drinking. By doing so they ingest all the healthy soil microbes, trace minerals and humus or humates that collects at the bottom of the pond through rain wash off. This is natures way of replenishing the rumen microbes on a daily basis.
In modern agriculture animals are prevented from replenishing their rumen microbes in a natural way. The result is an endless cycle of sickness management that results in significant financial losses.
βοΈA unique combination of bacteria, algae, fungi and protozoan species are therefore used to construct the microbial component in the Vermate product that would restore the animals link to the natural environment.
βοΈThe second component that makes the Vermate product unique is the addition of humic acids or humates that is derived from soil humus. The most outstanding characteristics of humates is the ability to provide micro-minerals, act as a chelating or carrying agent for nutrients and metabolic waste, and also its ability to act as an immune stimulating agent in the body.
βοΈMicrobial Interaction: Vermate makes use of the vast diversity of soil microbes to supplement the rumen microbes on a daily basis. The aim is to keep the rumen microbes as close as possible to that of animals that would have natural exposure to soil microbes. The equation therefore is simple. The more microbes in the stomach the better the nutritional uptake and the better the health of the animal. Apart from the cumulative effect obtained from the vast number of different microbial species in the Vermate product, πone major difference of Vermate with commercial probioticsπ... is the occurrence of nitrification and denitrification bacteria. These are soil bacteria that enable the efficient breakdown and conversion of nitrogen in feed rations into dietary proteins. Most commercial probiotics consist only of lactic acid bacterial strains or yeasts. These strains do not possess specific nitrogen breakdown and conversion characteristics.
Evidence of this comes from people that use Vermate in feed rations that experience a huge reduction of ammonia smell in animal waste and urine. Efficient break down and processing of nitrogen in an animals metabolic system is a key factor in improving the animals immune system. Ammonia and nitrates that are not efficiently processed and excreted from an animals system is circulated back into the animals blood stream. This is a major cause for a weakened immune system that leads to lower production levels and diseases.
βοΈAnother attribute of the Vermate product is the use of Duddingtonia fungi. These fungi have the ability to control nematode parasites and liver fluke in ruminant animals. This provides a powerful tool for parasite control on a pro-active maintenance basis.
βοΈHumates and Animal health: It is a well known fact that micro-organisms are responsible for the breakdown of organic material in nature. It is a less known fact that humus is formed in the process and that humic acids are derived from humus. Humic acids are formed when the micro-organisms that feed on organic material dies off and mineralize. Various components such as DNA, RNA, mitochondria and other cellular components break down and rearrange themselves to form humic and fulvic acid molecules. Humic and Fulvic acid has proved to be one of natures most powerful organic electrolytes and it serves to balance cell life. When organic electrolytes are introduced, the individual cell is restored to its normal chemical balance and its electrical potential where otherwise disintegration and death would occur. Where beneficial microbes help to balance pH on a macro level, humates helps to balance pH and electrochemical potential at a cellular level.
π And in a nutshell... This is Vermate. Apart from all the ingredients and natural substances found in this description above, there are NO other ingredients present in Vermate. It is natural, organic and derived from soil which contains all of soil's natural benefits.