Southern Livestock Producers: Supporting seasonal change & production demands with Blue Cap & Green Cap

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Southern livestock systems experience constant nutritional swings, lush spring growth, tightening summer pastures, autumn feed gaps, and cold winter slowdowns. These fluctuations place pressure on cows, heifers, ewes and lambs, influencing fertility, growth, metabolic stability and overall performance.

Beachport’s Blue Cap and Green Cap work together to support both year-round nutritional consistency and targeted stress support, helping producers smooth out the effects of seasonal change without the labour, stress or cost of yarding and injections.

The role of trace elements, amino acids & electrolytes in summer

Beachport’s formulations utilise bioavailable trace elements, amino acids, and natural electrolytes, three key drivers of performance nutrition that help livestock adapt to seasonal shifts and production cycles.

  • Trace elements: Support enzyme function, reproductive performance and immune resilience, particularly important during cold stress, wet conditions and pasture decline.
  • Amino acids: Improve nutrient absorption, energy conversion, muscle development and tissue repair, vital during pre-joining, pre-calving/lambing and seasonal feed changes.
  • Electrolytes: Help maintain hydration, nerve function and rumen stability, supporting animals during heat spikes, weaning, shearing, crutching or sudden pasture transitions.

This powerful combination enhances nutrient uptake directly into the bloodstream, improving condition, fertility and growth, even when pasture quality fluctuates.

Blue Cap: year-round support through changing seasons

Blue Cap is designed for ongoing, consistent support, providing key trace elements, amino acids and electrolytes to help livestock maintain performance as pasture quality changes.

Applied every six weeks, Blue Cap supports:

  • Improved digestion and feed conversion across green, dry and transitioning feed
  • Fertility, immune function and metabolic efficiency
  • Better resilience during summer/autumn feed gaps and winter decline
  • Hydration and recovery during warm periods or sudden weather shifts
  • More stable performance in cow/calf, heifer and ewe/lamb programs

For high-production areas or regions where phosphorus deficiency is known or suspected, we recommend using White Cap. White Cap contains all the benefits of Blue Cap with the added advantage of supplemental phosphorus, the key formulation difference between the two products.

Green Cap: targeted support for stress & high demand periods

Southern operations often involve sharp stress events and workload spikes:

  • Weaning
  • Shearing & crutching
  • Transport
  • AI programs
  • Feedlot entry
  • Sudden diet changes

Green Cap is designed to help stock cope with these short-term challenges. It supports:

  • Hydration and electrolyte balance
  • Faster recovery from handling, weather stress or transport
  • Improved energy utilisation when intake is reduced
  • Better overall resilience during high-demand windows


Putting it into practice

Southern producers commonly use:

  • Blue Cap every 4-6 weeks as the base program
  • Green Cap before or after stress events or seasonal pressure points
  • While it isn’t generally necessary to overlap products, it is perfectly acceptable to do so when timing requires it. For example, if young cattle were dosed with Blue Cap three weeks ago but are about to be transported, a Green Cap dose pre-trucking is still recommended. After using Green Cap, simply restart the 4-6-week Blue Cap cycle from that date.

This approach delivers both ongoing nutritional consistency and targeted seasonal support, helping southern herds and flocks perform more reliably throughout the year.

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Call Scott or Mark on (08) 8725 4668 for further guidance on best practices to meet your seasonal requirements.