Building Better Calves: Nutritech’s 2025 Calf Range Delivers Performance and Profitability
Raising strong, healthy calves is the cornerstone of a productive and profitable Dairy or Beef operation. Nutritech’s newly updated Calf Range is designed to help farmers rear robust calves with optimal health, growth, and lifetime performance – whether for dairy or beef systems.
At the heart of the range is a focus on early-life nutrition, hygiene and immune system development. A strong start begins with providing quality colostrum. This is supported by Colostrum Keeper (NutriCare® Colostrum Keeper | Nutritech), a cost-effective colostrum preservative ensuring clean, acidified milk that can be fed to calves. To further enhance milk quality, Nutritech offers DanCalf® Gold ( DanCalf® Gold | Nutritech ), a premium milk additive to support gut health and immunity. Freshly launched in 2025, Proternative® Milk, a research-backed proven probiotic yeast, from Lallemand Animal Nutrition (Lallemand Animal Nutrition introduces ProTernative® Milk in the United States – Lallemand Inc. ), to reduce diarrhoea and antibiotic use.
If calves get diarrhoea, DanCalf® Electrolyte (DanCalf® Electrolyte | Nutritech) provides a rapid, science-based solution for rehydrating calves to minimise death. For Coccidia parasite control, Coccistop® (Coccistop® Premix | Nutritech) delivers safe, effective coccidiosis prevention with a nil meat withholding. However, like all coccidiostats, they must not be fed to Bobby calves.
Nutritech also addresses the often-overlooked bedding environment as a source of harmful bacteria. Eazybed® Pro is a unique microbial bedding conditioner combining zeolite clay, lime and beneficial bacteria that works to dramatically reduce moisture, odours, and pathogen load – while reducing bedding costs by up to 30%. Read more about it here → When calves have a good rest, so do the farmers
As calves transition to solid feed, Levucell® SC (Levucell® SC 10 ME TITAN | Nutritech), a rumen specific live yeast probiotic, supports rumen development and mitigates post-weaning growth checks. Published NZ trial data has shown impressive results: 38% higher feed intake and 1.77 kg greater weight gain in the first post-weaning.
Backed by research, return-on-investment and practical experience and use, Nutritech’s 2025 Calf Range equips farmers with a full toolkit to help produce healthy, high-performing calves for lifetime performance. With competitive pricing and proven outcomes, this is more than a range – it’s a pathway to profitable farming.
Contact your Nutritech representative or visit nutritech.co.nz for more details.